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My God, Microsoft. In an attempt to improve your Edge web browser by adding a new ‘startup boost’ feature that is supposed to make it load faster, it appears to have actually made things worse, with a bug preventing the browser from closing correctly.
The new feature would launch some Edge browser processes in the background when Windows 10 starts, so when you actually launch the browser it should start much faster as many of its processes are already running.
While this is all very well, even though you may be bothered by the idea of Edge loading certain processes when Windows 10 starts, which could affect overall startup times, some users have encountered a rather annoying error where, Even if you close the Edge window, the browser won’t actually close, but it will continue to run in the background and restart again, running even more processes.
This is far from ideal, and it means that after a while of using, closing, and reopening Edge, you may see a performance hit on your PC as you will have a hard time running multiple instances of Edge at once. .
Error detection
As Windows Latest reports, several users have complained about the problem, which is causing their PCs to malfunction. Turning off Startup Boost in Edge seems to fix the problem.
If you’ve noticed a drop in performance recently, this may be the cause. Opening the Task Manager in Windows 10 (Ctrl + Shift + Esc on your keyboard) can show you if this is a problem – if there are a lot of Edge processes running, the error is likely to affect you.
Some other users also complain that closing Edge immediately opens it again.
You can disable the startup boost by opening Edge, clicking the three horizontal dots icon to bring up the menu, and clicking ‘Settings’. In the window that appears, click on ‘System’, then click the toggle next to ‘Startup Boost’ to shut it down.
Microsoft has also announced that it has decided to “temporarily disable Startup Boost as it was causing a frustrating problem for some users.”
Therefore, you may find that this problem has already been resolved. If not, check if you have any updates waiting for you in the Windows Update app. Microsoft is now looking for ways to recover Startup Boost without causing problems for users.
It’s good that Microsoft moved quickly to address this issue, but it’s a bit embarrassing that in its attempt to improve Edge, it ended up annoying a lot of people.
