How to Stop Microsoft Teams Starting Automatically on Windows 10
2How to Stop Microsoft Teams Starting Automatically on Windows 10.
When booting up your Windows 10 machine, you may find that Microsoft Teams is automatically launched. If you don't want Microsoft Teams to start on boot, there are a couple of ways you can stop it.
Every time you start your PC, Windows checks in more than a dozen places to see if you (or, more likely, some program you installed) has specified that a program should start automatically. Those auto-start programs can run as a result of entries in the Windows registry, scheduled tasks, Group Policy settings, even the ancient Win.ini file.
Most of the time, auto-starting programs are benign and useful. You almost certainly want your cloud file storage utility to run automatically so it can sync changes and new files added to OneDrive or Dropbox while you were away, for example.
Some Office 365 subscriptions automatically install Microsoft Teams along with the rest of Microsoft Office. Teams will automatically open at boot after it’s installed, but you can stop this by disabling the Team startup program.
If you don’t see the icon, you may need to click the up arrow to the left of the icons on your taskbar to view additional icons. The icon will appear here as long as Microsoft Teams is running.
But other auto-start programs are simply resource-draining vampires, placed there by program developers who decided their little icon in the system tray should always be visible, even though you rarely use their software.
In older Windows versions, you probably became accustomed to managing a limited selection of these nuisances using the Msconfig utility. Windows 10 offers control over a wider range of auto-starting programs directly from Task Manager.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung.