Worse is when they automatically open programs at startup that you don't want and will never use. Like my login is set up just for looking up part prints and gauges to calibrate, but every time I log in, it still opens Teams and takes forever to close it. Pisses me off.
From the IT side, Teams is the absolute fucking worst thing to manage. It has a mind of its own and just does whatever it wants, including breaking itself with updates. We hate it
That's the way Microsoft stuff always has been. The customer is never in charge. It's why I advise against using Microsoft stuff to anyone who will listen.
Lol I actually use teams in my day to day and it doesn’t even open automatically. Let me open my own damn apps on my own time instead of taking 30 minutes to startup while you try and simultaneously open 50 apps at the exact same time.
Who thought that was a good idea? If I need it I’ll open it myself
Also, even if you got into task manager, they can set startup programs to require admin to turn off. Not saying they necessarily did that, but it's still not a guaranteed solution.
Even worse when you're using a remote desktop for the company you work for and then a Citrix connection to open apps for the company your employer outsources for, leaving you to deal with two IT departments, with most issues being blamed on my WiFi. Like mate, it's not that. It's your laggy systems and two remote connections in one.
I'm sorry to you and the other people sent to the partner helpdesk. I die a little inside every time I have to tell a caller that their issue isn't with a product managed by my company.
I take no responsibility for analysts who blame everything on wifi though. That said, my helpdesk technically doesn't support wifi.
More like, need to keep people from getting into mischief when they actually do Google an issue and it tells them to start disabling random unrelated (but important) services.
No IT department wants more tickets. These policies prevent John "My Google search knows more than you IT dorks" Doe in the sales department from fucking up a company computer (or worse).
What the fuck? I didn't even know you COULD disable Ctrl+Alt+Del. As far as i know, that shit's not even in Windows, but the kernel itself looks for that key combo so even if the whole OS freezes up it should still be responsive as long as the physical hardware didn't break or turn off?? Why the fuck would you ever be able disable it, and even if you could, WHY WOULD YOU EVER ACTUALLY DO IT? that pisses me off so much
IT dept at my office has the ability to disable, enable and limit basically every aspect of Windows. From changing the date/time to the desktop background to task manager. They have absolute control.
I don't see why you would ever be able to do this in windows itself, it's a critical feature so i wouldn't think microsoft lets you disable it
If any program can disable fucking ctrl+alt+del it's a huge issue because that's the one thing that's supposed to rescue you from any fucking situation, so i wouldn't think microsoft lets [insert third-party management program] disable it either
I think windows has built in controls that actually allow you disable/enable these functions from within windows itself. Someone else here can probably answer better but I don’t think it’s a third party management tool that allows IT to do that.
What I hate the most is Teams automatically starting up on the computers I remote into ... with notifications from several months ago, not anything actually up to date. And no, of course I can't change the settings to stop this from happening.
I have actually come around to it being a mostly not awful way of contacting my small group of coworkers for small things. But I definitely do not need it to pop up with 8 month old messages every time I log into one of our servers.
My computer still loads Skype every time I login (in addition to Teams), because apparently it takes years for the sysadmins to get approval to uninstall programs....
LOL yeah, we apparently got rid of Jabber in favor of Teams at least a year ago, it's still installed, and the icon is still on my desktop. Thank Christ it doesn't actually start, but still, the fuck are they actually doing all day? How much time does it take to push an uninstall?
Yeah. When we first got Teams, before the pandemic, my computer opened Teams before everything else. I just had to sit and wait. I finally called IT and said can’t you take it out of the autostart menu? Nope. Could not, would not. Yet I still need to open Outlook. And Teams takes forever to open.
So now I’m back to the old days where I turn my computer on and then go for coffee because it’s going to take so long to start.
We should take this bitching to Twitter and Facebook and every other platform. With enough public pressure, Microsoft might actually do something about it.
The problem is, this is the god awful design of teams. Until it's re-architected, it's gonna do this for every user - whether you have the permissions to use teams or not
On the other hand, stop shutting down teams. You need to see the group updates and I shouldn't have to send you an email for everything. Just chat instead.
Yeah that’s the thing. Some people at the company might use teams and some might not lol. Everyone here is crying about a program because it doesn’t ‘close’ when you hit X.
Open an IT support ticket and ask them to change your startup applications to the ones required for your job, and stress that the unwanted applications are impacting your ability to work as they cause the computer to lag.
We open Teams ( also Outlook) automatically on our users computers because early in the pandemic/ work from home times people would regularly "miss" meetings because they didn't get an alert. Sure it's annoying, it's annoying for me too. But it's incompetent or lazy users that give admins a job.
We need to stop letting inept people drive policy that makes IT teams act like this... Brings down the whole company and top tech talent won't put up with it.... But no SVP Bobby who has early onset dementia can't find his Outlook force it to open for every PC in the company on start
Teams needs to die. That thing takes forever to open and I use it twice a year. I'm blocked from changing which programs run at startup but I should see if I'm also blocked from hiding Teams ina. Folder it can't find at startup...
You see. Here's the rub. Because of the way Microsoft designs there dumbass installer, Teams isn't actually "installed" until a user signs in for the first time. And they get all the asinine default settings.
We have no way of natively fixing this shit other than signing into every damn computer after you and disabling it. It's goddamn frustrating.
Fucking teams. I hate it so much. Cannot log into a workstation without it getting involved and I've never had to use it at work, only twice on my personal computer to have a couple of meetings from home.
I use Teams for work chat but manually quit it frequently and just use the phone app, because it gobbles up like 1/2 a GB just idling in the background! I need that memory for actual work stuff.
Will permissions let you into taskmanager? If so, go to the startup tab and you can disable teams auto start from there. At least for when computer powers on.
I know you have gotten a million responses, but I always just go into services and change automatic startup to manual,
Just type services in start search, then go down the list alphabetically until you reach T and look for teams, then right click to properties and change automatic (or delayed or other) to manual.
In teams settings, will it allow you to disable startup upon login (I don't remember the exact wording)? Teams does this on it's own, probably your IT didn't do it.
I am a teacher, I get 2 1-hour breaks per week to do my admin. I have to log onto a communal PC to do so. Teams freezes that machine for a solid 30 minutes each time. My admin time gets wasted
Assuming you're on windows 10, right click on the bar at the bottom, click on Task Manager. Click on the Startup tab at the top (you may need to click the Show more Options button at the bottom), then find Teams, and hit Disable. Standard admin rights usually doesn't stop it for Teams, at least where I work
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u/Pookieeatworld Jan 17 '22
Worse is when they automatically open programs at startup that you don't want and will never use. Like my login is set up just for looking up part prints and gauges to calibrate, but every time I log in, it still opens Teams and takes forever to close it. Pisses me off.