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

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.

4 Replies

7thMuse
8 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
8 months ago
@7thMuse Please avoid sharing false, unverified, or incorrect information. Thank you.
jckmxwell
7 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
Rising Newcomer
4 months ago
Yes, but please avoid doing shady things that cause people to say false, unverified, or incorrect information. 🙂