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 start our computers without even opening the ea app and staying on even after we close the ea app.
Fix below.
How to stop it starting with our computers.
In the app click the three lines in the top left corner Click settings.
In the application part of settings.
Disable Application updates, Open the ea app automatically on startup, Notifications and In-Game overlay.
In the download part of settings.
Disable update games automatically and enable background downloads.
Once doing this exit the app fully.
Press the windows key and type services and open services then find EABackgroundService
Right click and go to properties of the EABackgroundService
And set startup type to manual.
Now to the part to stop the EABackgroundService from running after closing the ea app.
Create a text file on your desktop and name it EADestroyer.bat now make sure you have file name extensions setting on.
In that file add this.
ECHO OFF
ECHO Starting EA
start /b /wait "" EADesktop.exe
net stop EABackgroundService
Open file explorer and navigate to where you installed the app.
For me it's C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop
In that folder drag and drop the bat file you created in there.
On that bat right click and create shortcut now it will say it will have to put it on your desktop don't worry that's what we want.
Right click the shortcut and press properties and change run from normal to minimised.
If you want you can change the icon and the name of the shortcut.
Make sure to remove the original ea app shortcut off your desktop.
When ever you want to open the ea app use this shortcut that leads to the bat file.
One issue is the bat file stays open until you close the ea app and it stops the background service there is no way around this.
There you go you can game peacefully with you knowing ea can't spy on you.
Perhaps this will get ea to fix this so called 'bug'
