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ebonweaver
2 years ago

Re: How do I prevent the EA app from starting with windows

I agree this is bad design, and not something we had to deal with under Origin.  The move to the EA app has been less than smooth.  This app is horribly intrusive.

- You can't actually disable it as a background service.  If you disable the service nothing works anymore.  This is nonsense.  We should be able to actually quit EA completely and not be required to have it running in the background all the time.

- To actually disable the auto start, you have to edit the registry (see attached).  This is nonsense.  There should be an easy to access option for this, not something buried in setting in the app post login that doesn't work and has other contradictory settings.

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  • EA_Leeuw's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
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    2 years ago
    @ebonweaver wrote:

    - To actually disable the auto start, you have to edit the registry (see attached).  This is nonsense.  There should be an easy to access option for this, not something buried in setting in the app post login that doesn't work and has other contradictory settings.

    @ebonweaver, this is sadly incorrect. Please do not make any manual changes to your system's registry to change the EA app auto-start behaviour. The Windows auto-start behaviour of the EA app can be regulated by following these steps.

  • trikatsw's avatar
    trikatsw
    2 years ago

    Already have those disabled and EA App opened upon startup again today.

  • trikatsw's avatar
    trikatsw
    2 years ago

    Might of found the culprit. I open the Xbox App on startup and EA App is an enabled extension.

    Maybe disabling this will help, but could mess something else up.

    Xbox App -> Settings -> Extensions

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