Microsoft Teams has a habit of running in the background or launching itself when you boot up your desktop. While this helps you deliver important messages from your colleagues and clients instantly and seamlessly, it can also be quite annoying to have it pop up every now and then. It goes without saying that you can also drain your device’s battery if Teams keeps running in the background.

That's why in this post we'll help you disable Microsoft Teams, prevent it from starting automatically, and then completely remove it from your system.

If you’re tired of seeing messages in Teams that you don’t need to read, you can force the app to close on your computer. This will prevent the app from running in the background.

This procedure consists of two steps. The first step is to prevent Microsoft Teams from running in the background. The second step is to close the app so that it is no longer running.