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LawnZ0mbie1's avatar
LawnZ0mbie1
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's avatar
SamuelShaban
10 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's avatar
7thMuse
10 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's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    10 months ago
    @7thMuse Please avoid sharing false, unverified, or incorrect information. Thank you.
    • jckmxwell's avatar
      jckmxwell
      8 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

    • Bludstan111's avatar
      Bludstan111
      Rising Newcomer
      5 months ago

      Yes, but please avoid doing shady things that cause people to say false, unverified, or incorrect information. 🙂 

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