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Edge 97 starting automatically at logon
MicrosoftHey 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!
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- 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.
- Are there any time-lines that we can expect a fix for this? Any kiosk machine at e.g. a hospital will be affected once they choose to update if there's no solution in place to block edge from starting on these kind of machines. Customers using software that uses the shell key to start a custom shell (Ivanti Workspace Control, Liquidware Profile Unity, Thinkiosk, Citrix desktop Lock) are affected if they allow this version to be installed.
