Startup Issue

**Rokanaske** · 06 Sep 2012

Not entirely sure if this is the correct thread to post this on, but my problem is when i boot up Windows 8, it automatically starts Bing search on my default browser [whether it be Chrome or IE]. Is there a way to disable bing search on startup?

I should also note that i haven't installed any Bing related apps. At least to my knowledge.

**Kevin Ismail** · 06 Sep 2012

For Chrome, open the setting on most upper right. on "On Startup" you may choose one of threee buttons. You can even specify the default.

For IE. You can just open the internet option. On General tab you specify what it should do when IE starts.

Kevin

**Zirynx** · 14 Sep 2012

Originally Posted by Kevin Ismail

For Chrome, open the setting on most upper right. on "On Startup" you may choose one of threee buttons. You can even specify the default.

Originally Posted by Kevin Ismail

For IE. You can just open the internet option. On General tab you specify what it should do when IE starts.

Kevin

Kevin, it isn't a homepage issue. It automatically loads your browser when Windows starts. I am having the same problem. It loads up the following URL: Bing which redirects to Bing. I have tried blocking the site in my "hosts" file. I have disabled just about every non-critical start-up process. It's driving me nuts, even though it's not a big deal. Someone please help us or at least confirm you're having the same problem to validate us.

**kbz1960** · 16 Sep 2012

What automatically loads your browser when windows starts?

**Kevin Ismail** · 16 Sep 2012

Originally Posted by Zirynx

Originally Posted by Kevin Ismail

For Chrome, open the setting on most upper right. on "On Startup" you may choose one of threee buttons. You can even specify the default.

Originally Posted by Kevin Ismail

For IE. You can just open the internet option. On General tab you specify what it should do when IE starts.

Kevin

Kevin, it isn't a homepage issue. It automatically loads your browser when Windows starts. I am having the same problem. It loads up the following URL: Bing which redirects to Bing. I have tried blocking the site in my "hosts" file. I have disabled just about every non-critical start-up process. It's driving me nuts, even though it's not a big deal. Someone please help us or at least confirm you're having the same problem to validate us.

Sorry for not being clear in catching the idea.
Honestly I haven't come across those issue this far. Logically it happens by some ways.
It could be by accidentally agreeing something during any program installation (often happens with ask.com though only for default search engine, etc). Or any program that add url to startup sequence.

Did you check the program and features in control panel? Also try to open MSconfig and see the service and startup tab if there is something you can suspect as one that loading Bing URL. You might also want to check the startup folder on start menu folder to make sure it's clean.

Ignore this if you already did it.

**armlabes** · 21 Dec 2012

I am having exactly this same problem. As soon as I boot up, my default browser loads the Bing search page. The home page settings in all of my browsers (Firefox 17.0.1, Opera12.11, and Internet Explorer 10) are all set to another search provider in the internet options. I have been unable to stop Bing search from automatically loading for several weeks now. Additional info: This does not happen when I start my browser. It loads my browser without my intervention, and loads the search page. I have checked the start up folder, delayed start up settings and services, and so far nothing to indicate why this behavior occurs. I also considered that it might be some form of malware causing it, but it has not been detected by Norton Internet Security or Malwarebytes during full system scans. Kind of at the end of my wits on this one.

Did anyone come up with anything that might be causing the behavior?

**topgundcp** · 23 Dec 2012

Another place you might want to check is the Scheduler since you can setup the scheduler to run a program after Login.

**armlabes** · 24 Dec 2012

Thank you for responding. I will give it a try. I just booted up, and this Bing search page just popped up again. I will let you know about whether your suggestion was successful.

armlabes

**Dwarf** · 24 Dec 2012

Do you, by chance, happen to have Bing Desktop installed? It is an optional update, but it may have been installed anyway depending on your update settings. You can, however, uninstall it in the same way as a normal program, via Programs and Features. Just click on Bing Desktop and uninstall it in the usual way.

**armlabes** · 24 Dec 2012

I appreciate the response. I always do my updates manually because of just this sort of thing, and I have pointedly avoided loading Bing Desktop. I do still see it as an optional update in Windows update, but I have never loaded it, and it does not appear in my list of programs in Programs and Features.

I am beginning to suspect that this might have been the result of an installer somewhere, and am now actively searching through recently installed programs to see if their installers did this as some kind of additional load.

Thanks again for your suggestion, because everything helps to narrow this down. When I find out what it is, I will definitely post so that others aren't subject to this annoyance.

armlabes

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