Prevent Microsoft Teams from starting automatically on Windows

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that helps teams stay connected across devices on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. In this article, we shall discuss how to Prevent Microsoft Teams from starting automatically on Windows. Please see How to schedule and join meetings with Microsoft Teams, Veeam Backup Deployment options for Microsoft 365 Data, and How to fix Microsoft Teams GIFs or Images not working.

After installing Teams, the app automatically starts when you boot your computer, even if you don’t need it. To prevent this, you can disable the auto-start feature through the Windows Settings app, or Task Manager.

As you can see below, Team is automatically started on this Windows Device and I do not care about Teams on this specific device. Therefore, I will have to disable the automatic startup.

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Disable Automatic Microsoft Teams Startup

Note: You can also disable Microsoft Teams from starting automatically using msconfig (System Configuration) by following the steps below. Here is how to Enable Autologon and Autostart for user session.

To do this, launch the Run Dialog window by pressing Win + R or search for RUN. Next, type msconfig and press Enter or OK.

Navigate to the Startup Tab in the System Configuration window as shown below. Click “Open Task Manager”. This redirects you to the Startup section in Task Manager.

Please locate Microsoft Teams in the list of startup programs. Right-click on Microsoft Teams and select Disable or select Team and click on Disable as shown below.

As you can see below, Microsoft Team have been disabled.

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Directly from the Task Manager

Alternatively, you could search for task manager on the fly or right click on the taskbar and select Task manager. This will open the Task Manager window as shown below.

You can as well re-enable or disable Teams from here.

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Via Windows Settings

You can also disable Microsoft Teams startup by searching for Startup Apps in the Windows Search or by navigating to Windows Settings.

To do this via the Windows Settings, navigate to Apps and then Startup. Then, find Microsoft Teams and turn off the toggle switch.

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