If you can’t find the setting in the Zoom front end, you can also go to Control Panel > More Details > Startup tab, find Zoom, right click, and select Disable.
Assuming Windows 10, process is slightly different on other versions
I open Control Panel, and I get ‘All Control Panel Items’. There is no More Details option. I looked in System, but I can’t do anything there.
Zoom seems to be asking me to create an account, rather than recover my password. I think I don’t actually have an account, since I don’t create meetings. I just attend them.
Right click on your clock.
Choose “Taskmaster”
Go to the “Startup” tab.
Click “Name” to sort the list by name
Find Zoom and click on it.
Click the “Disable” button at the bottom right.
Seeing the posts you made after - did Zoom start up by itself this time?
This is your work computer. Are you by chance remotely connecting to your work environment from your local machine? If so you may have Zoom on the actual computer you use to connect, as well as on the virtual machine you connect to.
It started when I logged in this morning, and on Friday. This is my work computer, and I am connecting via OpenVPN and Microsoft Remote Desktop. Since we only have a license for a single user for a program (not Zoom) I need, that program cannot be on the server and I have to connect directly to my work PC. Zoom starts on my work PC and the icon appears on the task bar. It doesn’t start on the Mac.
Come to think of it, I had to have someone turn on my computer last week. We’re in a new building, and there have been power fluctuations and a couple of Internet outages.
Hmm, interesting. One theory was, many offices with virtual machines have partitioned servers you can connect to for load balancing. So each time you start up your virtual machine, it runs on one of multiple servers. In those cases, a change to your registry (such as telling a program not to start up automatically) may affect your Windows user account on one server but not another. So you may have to make the change multiple times before it sticks.
But in your case you are remoting into a single physical machine, so that’s not the cause.