How do i stop onenote from starting up

Active Oldest Votes. Open Task Manager, Startup Items and disable it there. That should normally work. If not, get Autoruns Microsoft SysInternals. Download it, install it easy and run it. Disable all occurrences of One Note that show up in Autoruns. Good luck. Improve this answer. John John Ramhound Ramhound I have made an educated assumption that the icon you want to get rid of is this one.

If that isn't the icon then you should edit your question and provide us which icon you are talking about. I think you are on the right track. I want the start entry removed from my startup items. However, in my case. I don't have Office subscription and I never did. For me, the "Option" is grayed out.

So I can't get to the place to make the change. You indicated you already checked the startup registry keys. Your using the Desktop or UWP version? Edit your question instead of making this comment thread any longer — Ramhound. My answer never claimed to prevent it from automatically starting up only get rid of the notification icon which is what the author wanted to prevent — Ramhound. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Now under Display , uncheck the Place OneNote icon in the notification area of the taskbar. If this doesn't work for you and since you have tried several troubleshooting steps to disable automatic startup of OneNote, we recommend that you perform a repair of your Office application, and try to disable it again from the Startup programs.

For guidance on how to do the repair, kindly visit the link provided here: Repair an Office application. If you think this was useful, you may "mark it as an answer" to help those who are facing the same problem. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. How satisfied are you with this reply?. Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community.

Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. I'm using onenote and Windows Already tried a lot of ways, including disable it in the task manager and delete the shortcut in the startup folder.

But it still automatically opens when windows is on. I have the same question Report abuse. While an extremely flexible and powerful application, OneNote can be very annoying and bothersome in some respects.

By default, OneNote starts automatically when you log in to Windows and might use valuable resources needed for other programs. Furthermore, when you install office, Windows often configures OneNote as the default printer, which might interfere with print jobs. Fortunately, there are ways to disable OneNote both temporarily and permanently.

Scroll down to and select Microsoft OneNote in the list of startup programs. Click the check box next to Microsoft OneNote to remove the check mark and prevent the program from launching when Windows starts.