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Copper Contributor

Jan 11, 2022

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 th...

Alexandra-R

Former Employee

Jan 11, 2022

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!

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Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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ToddFuhrman

Copper Contributor

Jan 11, 2022

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-R
Former Employee
Jan 11, 2022
Oh 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.
- dennis_van_dam
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 12, 2022
  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.
  - Alexandra-R
    Former Employee
    Jan 12, 2022
    dennis_van_dam wrote:
    Are there any time-lines that we can expect a fix for this?
    
    Hey folks! We're working on getting the fix for this out, and I'll follow up here when we have a firm timeline and version for release.
    
    Thank you all so much for the reports and confirmations on this.
- Vipah
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 12, 2022
  Alexandra-R Our company (3000+) see the same issues..
  We also get a edge browser while logging in.