{"id":164111,"date":"2021-03-09T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=164111"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:11:36","slug":"how-to-stop-microsoft-teams-from-opening-on-startup-microsoft-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-stop-microsoft-teams-from-opening-on-startup-microsoft-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Microsoft Teams from Opening on Startup Microsoft Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microsoft Teams<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">offers you a single platform from where you can manage tasks with different teams, and people can ask questions or give advice. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teams<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has become much more popular in recent months with the increase in people working from home and is available on multiple platforms such as Windows <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-teams.en.softonic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PC<\/a>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-teams.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">web apps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-teams.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Android devices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-teams.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">iPhones<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-teams.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mac<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microsoft Teams<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s defaulted to<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">start up<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> whenever your computer starts up. You may wish to stop Microsoft Teams from opening on startup on Microsoft Windows 10 automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to Stop Microsoft Teams from Opening on Startup Microsoft Windows 10<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below we go through the simple steps of deactivating Teams starting <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">automatically<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 1: Access <\/b><b>Task Manager<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Press Crtl + Shift +Esc, and choose <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Task Manager<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-164114\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1615274260\/CTRLALTDEL_qix83x.png\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 2: Go to Startup Tab<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Task menu, open the tab that says \u2018Startup\u2019. This will list the programs that open <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">automatically<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">startup<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-164115\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1615274299\/Step_2_4_zicv2y.png\" width=\"657\" height=\"238\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 3: Disable Microsoft Teams<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microsoft Teams<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and then select \u2018disable\u2019. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This can also be done for other programs on Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-164116\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1615274316\/Step_3_4_bvwabw.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Gone like the wind<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microsoft Teams<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no longer open whenever you<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">startup<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> your computer. But you still have the program available when you need it. If you\u2019re looking for similar programs and apps, try <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slack<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Teams offers you a single platform from where you can manage tasks with different teams, and people can ask questions or give advice. Teams has become much more popular in recent months with the increase in people working from home and is available on multiple platforms such as Windows PC, web apps, Android devices, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-stop-microsoft-teams-from-opening-on-startup-microsoft-windows-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Stop Microsoft Teams from Opening on Startup Microsoft Windows 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":181546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2348,2351],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-164111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmicrosoft-teams","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325001,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164111\/revisions\/325001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164111"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=164111"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=164111"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=164111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}