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@burnout426 I tried setting Chrome as the default browser instead, but after locking and unlocking Chrome opens, and opens the Bing tab.

I also deleted the "Sessions" folder you mentioned, that did not change anything.

@burnout426 I ran services.msc, there are a hundred or so running, all greek to me. Nothing that indicates Bing that I can see.

I didn't see any running processes that indicated Bing either, there are a lot though. No way to know if one of them has anything to do with loading Binb.com.

I searched all of regedit, some instances of Bing, under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT ... \Internet Explorer\DOMStorage there was:
bing.com
www.bing.com

Also under HKEY_CURRENT_USER ... \Internet Explorer\DOMStorage there was:
bing.com
www.bing.com

I removed those.

There was also a cookie, ab anon, that contained a reference to Bing.com that I deleted.

There was something that contained a lot of gibberish along with very lengthy text telling a story about some random thing, seemed like it was from some page I may have landed on when Bing loaded. The text contained several mentions of Bing.com. I deleted that file.

In both Chrome and Opera I went to //settings/content/notifications and turned off allowed notifications for any sites.

Nothing worked though, I locked the PC and unlocked it, it loaded the browser and Bing.com.

@burnout426 The Process Explorer shows 7 running conhost.exe processes. The tabs in these don't reveal anything about opening the browser and loading Bing.com. The columns for Description, Company Name, and Autostart Location are all blank for those processes.

This morning when I unlocked the PC the command prompt icon appeared and stayed in the taskbar, but it didn't do anything. I opened Opera and Bing did not appear. After awhile I closed Opera, locked the PC again, and then unlocked it after a few seconds. The command prompt icon did not appear in the taskbar. Nothing opened. So it's where I want to be, but then again, there are times when I want to use the command prompt. Since it's been disabled I would have to reenable it every time I wanted to use it, or when I'm running a program that is coded to use it for some task I wrote. Very rare, I seldom need to use it.

Not the best outcome, but I'm not sure there was any other way to prevent the automatic browser opening and Bing loading. What bothered me more was what may have also been going on behind the scenes that I didn't know about, so I guess it was worth it.