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Former Member
2 days ago

1Password no longer starts minimised

Good day, since a few days ago my 1Password (which I've been using for years) no longer starts minimised at system startup.

Instead I get a big fat prompt to unlock it every time Windows (Windows 10 Pro 22H2) starts.

Thus, utterly annoyed, I've raised a ticket to support (EDU-91977-815), and I've been promptly informed that this is related to the migration to the MSIX installer and the deprecation of the EXE installer (which I've been using until now, apparently).

"Windows 10 doesn't appear to support launching MSIX applications in a minimized or background state. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this behaviour causes."

The suggested fix was disabling startup, which to me seems preposterous.
As a paying customer, I'd  much rather the program goes back to how it was before it got broken.

This (startup minimised) is a basic functionality of countless programs, and it got broken.
If MSIX is such a silly format that it can't start minimised, just keep the EXE going along with it, at least until MS comes up with a fix.

Thank you for your time.

PS: Until this is fixed, seems I'll have to downgrade to 1Password 8.11.16 / exe format and disable automatic updates. https://downloads.1password.com/win/1PasswordSetup-latest.exe

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  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 hours ago

    With help from support I switched to the MSI version which appears to keep getting updated: https://support.1password.com/deploy-1password/?windows#step-1-choose-an-installer

    The only tweak I had to do was modify the registry entry for startup (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) from --auto-start to --silent

    It was also my understanding that the dev team will explore ways to mitigate this behaviour on Windows 10.

    I'm very happy now and consider this solved on my end by using the MSI installer.