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Seasoned Newcomer

3 years ago

Is there a setting to completly close the EA app on exit?

I recall a option on Origin that would shut the app down on exit but I can't find such option in the new EA App. Rather, the app will instead default to minimizing to the background but stay running....

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SamuelShaban

12 months ago

I use a batch file that kills every task that has the word "EA" in it as soon as the game is closed. But even then the EABackgroundService.exe can't be killed because it is running under SYSTEM user, which means I need to run the script as ADMIN to be able to kill it. And leaving it open breaks the next game launch.

for /f "tokens=1" %%i in ('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq EA*" /NH') do taskkill /F /IM %%i

Pretty messed up behavior from EA.

7thMuse
12 months ago
100% this is a back door into people’s systems and is being used to collect data without consent or warning.
- EA_Leeuw
  Community Manager
  12 months ago
  @7thMuse Please avoid sharing false, unverified, or incorrect information. Thank you.
  - jckmxwell
    10 months ago
    @EA_Leeuw wrote:
    @7thMusePlease avoid sharing false, unverified, or incorrect information. Thank you.
    incredibly funny that the EA staff didn't reply to any of the grievances about not being able to quit the app without the task manager until someone said that it's a data harvesting backdoor