Microsoft Edge is not much of a popular browser, but it is one of the best browsers up there. Edge is developed by Microsoft originally for the Windows platform. However, Microsoft has launched Edge for other major platforms like macOS and Android too. It is the fastest web browser with modern web-standard technologies. Therefore the browser is widely in use. However, it doesn’t have that much features and functionality, such as Google Chrome. It has some bugs. A few features of Edge is very annoying to most of the users. One of such Edge feature is, it automatically opening in most Windows and Mac computers and runs in the background.
This probably occurs because the application has administrative permission to execute itself on the startup and to run in the background. Disabling Edge from Automatically opening up is very easy in macOS; however, in Windows, there are a few ways in which you can restrict Edge from suddenly launching on the screen.
Stop Microsoft Edge Automatically Opening on Windows
There are few solutions in windows that you can do to prevent the Edge from automatically launching. However, we are only gonna talk about the best-assuring method that is sure to work.
Registry Editor controls almost all the functions on your Windows Pc. Therefore you can use the registry editor to control the functions of Edge. You will only have to do a little bit of configuration to resolve your issue. Follow the steps mention below to know.
unchecking the “Open at Login” option does not stop edge from starting after a restart of my Mac. (OSX 13.4)