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SinfulFish's avatar
SinfulFish
3 years ago

How to stop EA Desktop background service from running most of the time.

So as you all know EA had the greatest idea of replacing origin with EA Desktop and forcing us to use it. Some of us sneaky peekers have spotted a thing called EABackgroundService running when we sta...
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EA_Kent's avatar
EA_Kent
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3 years ago

@SinfulFish 

There are some other situations that might be keeping it running. For instance, if you're using the Xbox app on your PC it will run the EABackgroundService. Likewise if you run an EA game through Steam or Epic, it will also run in the background. It should stop the background service when these clients are closed, though. Again, there may be a delay of a couple minutes after exiting the client or game before the background service stops. 

phoo-monkey's avatar
phoo-monkey
3 years ago
@vokul4 the steps that @EA_Kent suggested worked for me and the background service does stop after about a minute of shutting down the EA app. Not sure why you felt the need to be rude when a perfectly good guide was provided for us.
  • magnet_dk's avatar
    magnet_dk
    3 years ago

    Solution from @EA_Kent works for me too.

  • J-harris3712's avatar
    J-harris3712
    2 years ago
    @phoo-monkey doesn't work for me, how is that a perfect guide aswell he answered questions we didnt ask, we're on about ea app running in the background not automatic Application updates and Enable background downloads
  • SpacificNocean's avatar
    SpacificNocean
    2 years ago

    OP was not rude or insulting in any manner. The passive aggressiveness in your post is quite literally undeserved. The question is why are YOU being rude

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