Spotify started opening on startup ?

[Tio 0]

Hey people , today Spotify opened when I started my laptop/win10. Just wanted to ask if this ever happened to anyone of you guys ? And what could cause this ? I never installed spotify on my laptop. 

Edited December 28, 2019 by Tio

[itman 1,801]

Appears this might have been an auto Win Store install: https://windowsreport.com/windows-10-installing-apps-automatically/

 

[Tio 0]

Hey itman, thank you for the answer. 

I guess it was installed on my laptop, but just yesterday it did start upon when I started my laptop. I read somewhere that this might be caused when the app is updated or something, it is after all "Spotify" should be nothing shady about it ? Whats is your opinion on it ? 

[itman 1,801]

6 minutes ago, Tio said:

Whats is your opinion on it ? 

Per the link I posted, it appears to be Microsoft supported software:

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As a quick reminder, Microsoft killed Groove Music a while ago and replaced it with Spotify.

 

Edited December 29, 2019 by itman

[Tio 0]

Itman, helpful as always !  Cheers man ! 

[Tio 0]

Just out of curiosity has this ever happened to any others ? 

[peteyt 396]

11 hours ago, Tio said:

Just out of curiosity has this ever happened to any others ? 

Not with spotify but I remember when windows installed candy crush without user consent. You should be easily able to uninstall spotify or if you wish to keep it disable it from startup

[Nightowl 206]

2 hours ago, peteyt said:

Not with spotify but I remember when windows installed candy crush without user consent. You should be easily able to uninstall spotify or if you wish to keep it disable it from startup

OneDrive , Candy Crush and the other games , Skype , It seems now also Spotify , all of these are automatically installed , even though you uninstall them , Windows does wait a little bit of time to try again to download it.