topic Re: Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem in Desktop (Windows)

Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem

johnblake — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 01:42:48 GMT

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

Desktop

Operating System

WIN10

My Question or Issue

Two days ago, Spotify began loading automatically on startup of my desktop. None of the settings on Spotify have been changed. The option for " "Open Spotify automatically..." is still set to "NO" in the 'Startup and Window Behaviour' under advanced settings. I do NOT want auto startup, but nothing I've done has corrected it.

Re: Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem

Jollof — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 05:18:07 GMT

Hi @johnblake, welcome to the Community!

The problem could lie outside of your Spotify client. Try going to Task Manager and navigating to the 'Start-up' tab. From there, make sure that Spotify is set to 'Disabled'.

Let me know how it goes!

Re: Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem

johnblake — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 06:07:31 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion, but Spotify shows as "disabled' in the startup menu, so that isn't the source of the problem.

Re: Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem

Jollof — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:45:45 GMT

Perhaps it is in your settings then. Searching 'Startup Apps' on the Windows bar should take you to a settings page with the startup programs listed where you can disable it.

If you can't find it there, try pressing Win+R and entering 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp' (without quotations). If you find a shortcut to Spotify in this folder, simply delete it.

Re: Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem

johnblake — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:19:33 GMT

Whatever was causing the problem has resolved itself. I haven't changed any settings, but Spotify did not start when I booted up today. I restarted to make sure, and Spotify stayed where it should: OFF. Go figure.

Re: Spotify starts automatically on desktop, in spite of being set NOT to. Recent problem

Jollof — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:29:21 GMT

That's great!

Happy listening 🙂