On 20/08/2018 01:39, slate_leeper wrote:
I never use Microsoft Edge. Yet I can't stop it from running. I have
searched via Google and found various suggestions or "solutions," none
of which have worked.

When I run ccleaner, it asks if I want to stop Edge. Yes. It then asks
if I want to force it to exit. Yes. Ccleaner than runs, shows that it
cleans Edge and deletes cookies.

Run ccleaner again in just a couple of minutes, and the same thing
happens. Edge has been restarted.

Edge is not listed in the startup folders or in Task Scheduler, at
least not under that name.

Agent Ransack finds four instances of MicrosoftEdge.exe. However they
can only be renamed by Trusted Installer.

By the way, in researching this I learned that "disable background
apps" in the current Win-10 version is also not permanent. They are
re-enabled during reboot. The cure for that is he
https://winaero.com/blog/disable-bac...-version-1803/

That no longer stops Edge, however. Task Manager shows five different
entries under Microsoft Edge. End Task does stop them. However that,
of course, only lasts until the next reboot (or maybe even less.)

Anyone know how to do it? Note, this is not a critical thing. It just
annoys me that I have to waste resources running a program that is
never used.

-dan z-



Try Settings Privacy Background Apps - turn off Edge - see if that
helps.