Solved
EA Connect White Square
Every time I start up my laptop I get EA Connect showing up in my start bar but instead of it being a window I instead get a white square in the middle of my screen that just sits there indefinitely ...
I fixed this by repairing the EA app. I went to https://www.ea.com/ea-app#downloads, downloaded it for Windows, ran it, and then clicked Repair. After the repair finished, I had to sign in to my EA account again and it's working fine now.
