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I've installed Iron now for the first time.
When the computer has booted and I try to start Iron I always get on error message that another instance ist still running.
The task manager shows that chome.exe is running.
How can I deactivate this autostart (the option for running background apps isn't active!)?
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Did you enable cloud print? That runs a continuous background service as well.
Also, Google Now now runs as a continuous background service and it's turned on for everyone even if you turned off background stuff previously as of 35.0. You'll need to turn it off again.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
It was the chrome.exe from Google Chrome wich is located in a different windows user account.
Somehow an autostart record appeard in my user account, wich caused this message when I tried to start Iron. I removed it in the registry.
Sorry for any inconvenience!!!!