PIA launches at windows login even though that setting is disabled

p3637599p3637599
in General VPN Support
I also looked in Task Manager -> Startup stab, and PIA is not listed there. Why is PIA starting up at windows login? How do I make it stop?

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  • Omnibus_IVOmnibus_IV
    It starts up as a service. Need to look in services.msc.
  • p3637599p3637599
    edited September 2019
    @Omnibus_IV I believe that is incorrect unfortunately. The Private Internet Access service is not the same as the Private Internet Access client. And if I disable the PIA service the PIA client wont work at all.
    I need to only prevent the PIA client from auto starting at windows login, but of course I still need to be able to use the PIA program if I want to launch it later, and that is not possible if the service is not running.
  • p3637599p3637599
    edited September 2019
    I should mention that setting PIA service to Manual also prevents the PIA client from working, I then have to manually start the service and that is obviously not something I want to do everytime I need to start PIA. When the PIA service is set to Automatic it will start at windows login but then PIA client will unfortunately again start automatically at windows login.

    I only want the PIA client to NOT launch at windows login, but the PIA service of course still need to be started automatically.
  • Omnibus_IVOmnibus_IV
    Sorry, misunderstood what you were asking.
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