iCloud windows open at startup Windows 11

Since two weeks an iCloud window is started up when I start my Windows PC. I think it is irritating. What can I do to stop this window appearing?


Windows, Windows 11 (26100)

Posted on Mar 30, 2025 02:24 AM

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Posted on Apr 18, 2025 04:56 AM

I've found a solution to this issue. You need to open the Registry Editor (Windows key + R) and search for

iCloud\iCloudHome.exe starting from the key HKEY_USERS. Wherever you find the key \Shell\open\PackageRelativeExecutable, you should delete it.

After doing this, the annoying iCloud window will no longer appear during Windows startup, while all functionality will remain unchanged.



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Apr 18, 2025 04:56 AM in response to Macamba

I've found a solution to this issue. You need to open the Registry Editor (Windows key + R) and search for

iCloud\iCloudHome.exe starting from the key HKEY_USERS. Wherever you find the key \Shell\open\PackageRelativeExecutable, you should delete it.

After doing this, the annoying iCloud window will no longer appear during Windows startup, while all functionality will remain unchanged.



Apr 1, 2025 10:37 AM in response to Macamba

This happend also to me and I was so stupid (!!!) to disconnect my account thinking this would help and try to reconnect, with the result that now the sync with my calender and contacts does no longer work, before everything was ok.

And now it looks like that more or less only me has this problem, have to look on these sites. Tried a lot of things, always the same famous error message, or there is no standart profil in Outlook, or there es a unknown error 0x800706ba !!!

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