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Jun 12, 2020

Known Issue – Microsoft Edge Launching on Startup

Greetings Insiders,

 

Join us in gathering information about a new issue that our team is investigating.

 

 

What we know so far

 

We've heard from our community that some versions of Microsoft Edge are automatically launching whenever users start their PCs and log into Windows, regardless of their selection in edge://settings/onStartup. It’s currently unknown whether there are any accompanying behavioral changes with this bug.

 

If this is something that you're experiencing with Microsoft Edge, we want to know in the comments below! And if you’d like to roll up your sleeves and start the debugging process with us, we’d love your assistance.

 

 

How to help

 

To help our devs understand and address this as quickly as possible, we ask that you kindly share diagnostic data through our secure in-browser feedback tool. So, if you're familiar with your device’s command prompt, please run the following steps to create and submit additional log files.  

 

  1. Open the command prompt from an Admin account – Press the Windows key then type in “cmd” or “command prompt” into the search. You’ll see a black window open.

 

  1. Enable Logging – run these two commands (hint: the second is one line)
auditpol.exe /set /subcategory:"Process Creation" /failure:enable /success:enable
 
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Audit /v ProcessCreationIncludeCmdLine_Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0x1 /f

 

  1. Save all open files, Reboot your PC and log in 

 

  1. Create and Save the log file – Open Powershell as an admin and run the following command
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{LogName="Security"; ID="4688"} | fl > c:\users\edgelogfile.txt

 

  1. Open the feedback tool and attach the file c:\users\edgelogfile.txt

 

A. Open the feedback tool by holding down the keys Shift+Alt+I, or by navigating through the "…" menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback.

B. In the pop-up, please ensure that "Send diagnostic data" is checked

C. To attach a file, click the diagnostic date hyperlink*

 

*Note: some users may see a different version of the tool that has a second button at the bottom for adding attachments directly

 

D. In the next feedback window, select "Attach a file," then "Choose file to upload"

E. After attaching c:\users\edgelogfile.txt, click "Save and include"

 

F. Then back in the first window, be sure to hit "Send"

 

6. Clean up - from an Admin Command Prompt run these three commands 

auditpol.exe /set /subcategory:"Process Creation" /failure:disable /success:disable
 
reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Audit /v ProcessCreationIncludeCmdLine_Enabled /f
 
del /f c:\users\edgelogfile.txt

 

Thanks for your help. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

- The Microsoft Edge Product Team

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