Forum Discussion
Edge 97 starting automatically at logon
With the systems in my enterprise updating to Edge 97, all of those that have updated are now automatically launching Edge at logon.
A scheduled task seems to be initiating this. I'm assuming the prior versions also received this command to check for updates but didn't launch edge to do it?
Disabling the scheduled task MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore fixes the issue. Pushing out this disablement is not easy but I think I came up with a script to do it.
Will this be fixed? I certainly hope this is not an intended "feature". Are there reprecussions disabling the task MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore?
UPDATE: The problem is now worse than discovered. On some machines another task is created, almost the same name but now it's individualized, each machine is unique. For instance, I just came across a machine which has the previously mentioned task and another that is named
MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore1d7eaee21bb96be
- Alexandra-R
Microsoft
Hey everyone! So sorry for the delay in updating and not being able to provide a firm timeline. A few different moving parts were at play here, and I've now confirmed all fixes are in the process of rolling out. Edge version 97.0.1072.62 contains the fix and will be installed per your regular update policies over the next day or so. If you'd like to force the update immediately, you can head over to edge://settings/help in the address bar or Settings > About Microsoft Edge and trigger the update manually.
If you've made any registry edits or GPO changes as mitigation, you can revert those after the update!
Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeAlexandra-R I get some people here that are reporting the issue again 😞
tested out and i can confirm..
- Alexandra-R
Hey there ToddFuhrman! Thanks so much for posting, the team is investigating this issue with MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore launching the browser unexpectedly. Currently, they don't need any additional information, but I will ping you back here if there's anything they need to help the investigation. Some folks will be seeing an option to "Always open Microsoft Edge when you sign in to Windows" on edge://settings/system, if your machines are seeing that setting you can disable it for now while we investigate this.
Thank you!
Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Discuss Stable features and issues on the answers.microsoft.com forums, join us on Twitter, or join the communities over on Reddit in r/MicrosoftEdge or r/edge- I have not seen that option yet on any systems I've personally looked at. FYI, I've researched and tried all of the available options which are available (boost, continue running background...., the restart apps in User Account settings, etc.) Many GPO settings tried also. We are predominately Windows 10 21H2, but have a few other versions of 10. Only a couple at 11 so far in our domain. All versions are afflicted. All running Enterprise version. About 800 machines. We're a school district and many teachers are remote, we're a mess already, definitely don't need this. Although it's harmless, it's confusing to some as to what is going on..
- Alexandra-ROh absolutely, it's especially confusing for folks that don't have Edge as their default browser and we're aware of that too. The team is working on a code change for this that should go out with the next update, and I've shared this thread with them as well as other feedback we're getting.
Found a workaround.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients\{56EB18F8-B008-4CBD-B6D2-8C97FE7E9062}\Commands\on-logon-autolaunch
AutoRunOnLogon = 0- Please fix this issue!!
- I've pushed this out, works for me even with the affected task being enabled.
- That is the first thing that finally worked!! Thanks!!
- We're seeing the same thing for any user with a logon script specified in AD on the profile tab.
Created a logon script that just opens a CMD window, this causes Edge to open.
A blank logon script doesn't.
