topic Re: Remove from startup in Desktop (Windows)

Remove from startup

cwolff11 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:46:22 GMT

Spotify automatically starts up when I turn my computer on. How do I stop that? I am using windows 7 os.

Re: Remove from startup

Sam — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:03:10 GMT

Hey!

You should be able to do this by popping into 'Preferences' ('Edit' at the top of your Spotify). It should be down the bottom of the page.

Re: Remove from startup

bluefirepatrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:58:20 GMT

Except that when you select 'do not open automatically' it still begins on startup. I have checked the usual places on Windows for startup items. THis is annoying- please help.

Re: Remove from startup

bluefirepatrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:35:15 GMT

I have looked into this a bit more. In the AppData Roaming directory for Spotify there are two files: setting and spotify.args -these both mention autostart even with the option 'off' in the SettingsPanel (as mentioned above). Please provide values for these files so that it does not autostart. I am about to uninstall and cancel. Apps should not take the liberty of autostarting. I love Spotify but want it to run when I choose to run it. This is a deal breaker.

Re: Remove from startup

George — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:48:09 GMT

Have you checked whether Spotify is set to autostart from msconfig?

Start >> Run >> msconfig.exe

(or in Windows Vista / 7 without a run command, just type "msconfig.exe" into the search box on the start menu, and hit enter when it finds the executable)

Under the start up tab look for an item called spotify, then just untick it. Save those changes and see if that fixes it?

Re: Remove from startup

bluefirepatrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:36:52 GMT

Yes, even with Spotify unchecked in Startup items under msconfig the App still starts automatically after restart. The Startup Items directory is clear too and the Don't open automatically option is selected in Prefs. This is on Windows 7 SP 1 with your latest version.

Re: Remove from startup

George — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:30:26 GMT

You mentioned the settings file in AppData\Roaming\Spotify...

I've just had a look at mine (which was set to not open automatically), and found no parameter that referenced to automatic starting.

However, after changing my preferences so that spotify should open, and then exitting Spotify (to prompt it to update the settings file), I've found a parameter called: "autorun_type" has been added.

Can you check whether such a parameter exists in your settings file?

Re: Remove from startup

bluefirepatrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:37:13 GMT

So with the setting of 'Dont open automatically' it seems to remove that param. When I set it to 'Open automatically' in the App it sets that param with a value of 1. 'Open auto but minimized' sets it to 2. 'Dont open' then removes the param again. I tried setting it to 3 by hand and restarting but it still autostarted and the preference was set to' Open auto but minimized' in the prefs.

Re: Remove from startup

adfsk12 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:37:33 GMT

Has anyone found the solution to this? Spotify comes up every time I start up, but even though I've checked the button in preferences that says for it not to.

Re: Remove from startup

etsybay — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:49:51 GMT

uninstalling!

This is too frustrating

Re: Remove from startup

sfairborne28 — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:58:35 GMT

I have tried the usual stuff and this boot at startup junk is not for me.

Pandora dosent force herself on me- why are you so clingy Spotify?

Did you go through a bad breakup and cant stand being alone?

I just want to be with you on my terms...

Re: Remove from startup

Scionfall — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:04:44 GMT

Just had a user at work with this problem. I went into Edit | Preferences and selected "Do not open automatically" and also unchecked the "Spotify Web Helper" from MSConfig (Click Start, then type msconfig in the "Search Program Files... " box, Startup tab. Restarted the laptop and voila! No more Spotify on startup.

Hope this helps anyone still having trouble.

Thanks,

Scionfall

Re: Remove from startup

George — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:02:00 GMT

Of course that also would mean that Spotify won't be able to open itself from a Web link (Play button etc) unless the client was already open... but I guess that's less annoying that the client opening when you don't want it to!

Re: Remove from startup

Gbuffa — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:01:16 GMT

I have also had this problem and have not been able to fix it in Prefs or through msconfig Startup. George can we get Spotify to make a patch or something? What's the deal? This is super annoying...

Re: Remove from startup

MajorNuts — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:24:22 GMT

1. go to start and type: regedit

2. navigate to HKEY_current_user/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

3. delete spotity and spotify web helper

and that should solve your problem.

-MajorNuts

Re: Remove from startup

Hanky — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:54:50 GMT

I checked all that on my computer but the final step to make it stop wasn't in that /run folder. I have everything checked. I have "don't automatically open on start up" checked and back when I did have the option on my start up files (which is now gone for some reason) I had it unchecked too. Spotify even tries to open 2 of itself when it starts up I will get the normal log in window plus some error window that says "another version of this is already open on your computer" or something to that effect. I love spotify and have been using it close to a year I believe but back when I had windows XP I never had these issues. Now that I've upgraded this is been the only application that causes the most annoyance for me on start up. Is there a fix for this? Or possibly an update soon? I've seen many people ask for help on this and get nothing that actually works. I know all the ways of opening msconfig, using CCleaner to do this as well but all of that is not even helping this issue. What's going on guys?

Re: Remove from startup

Gbuffa — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:53:06 GMT

Yup - exact same for me Hanky. SUPER LAME!

Fix for Spotify startup

ISanders — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:35:54 GMT

I had the same issue, spotify prefs, registry keys, msconfig, startup folder, and 3rd party boot utilities (ccleaner, glary utilities) would not work, or was not able locate the Spotify startup files. Here are the steps if all else seems to not work.

First open Spotify if it is not already running.

(1) Delete the Spotify Icon on your desktop if you currently have one. (Any Spotify shortcuts created before completing these steps will no longer work).

(2) Open task manager (ctrl + shift + esc)

(3) Switch to Processes tab and Right-Click "Spotify.exe" and select "open file location".

(4) In this folder you should see two application files named, "Spotify" and "SpotifyLauncher".

Right click each file and add a 1 to the end of the file name.

"Spotify1" and "SpotifyLauncher1"

(5) Right click Spotify1 and select create shortcut. It should make a shortcut icon which you can drag to your desktop. (This file can be renamed to anything as long as the target is not changed).

Once this is complete, it should no longer load on startup. You can now use the created desktop shortcut to open Spotify.
Hope this helps - IS

Re: Fix for Spotify startup

Debs1 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:43:19 GMT

WORKED PERFECT............ no more spotify on start up........... many thanks 😉

Re: Remove from startup

rgflan — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:59:46 GMT

I've tried all the solutions in this thread and none of them have worked. I went into msconfig, registry editor, and spotify preferences. There aren't even any spotify options in msconfig or regedit, so I don't know what to do. If I don't find a solution soon I'm just going to have to uninstall on my computer.

I haven't had this problem on my old windows vista laptop, but in my new windows 7 I have spotify pinned to the taskbar and it opens twice every single time I start up no matter what I do. I have to go in to the tast manager and stop the processes to close them. this is incredibly annoying and is making me a very frustrated spotify customer.