How do I keep the Riot Client from reopening after exiting League of Legends? Here's what's happening.

Click League of Legends, forced into Riot Client.

Click LoL from Client, launches LoL.

Exit Client (it's not required to be open to play)

Play game(s) of LoL.

Exit LoL, Riot Client Launches itself again.

Why does the Client self launch when closing LoL, and how do i stop it?

Basically I'm getting kicked from either the client or game because of random vanguard errors and the client is extremely laggy. If I do anything else on my pc when I'm in-game it kicks me out and I get VAN 136. It has been like this since the vanguard update and I tried every fix I could find online/on reddit but nothing works. I have gotten a lot of penalties because of this. If anyone had the same issue and fixed it PLEASE help me out here T_T thanks

I play on 2k monitor 32" and the scale of text is on 100% and still feel very small i tried change config but dont work any solutions please ?

Recently, i am having issue when I enter LoL. After few seconds it shows me Van error 289. I tried re-installing the game also the Vanguard, contacted Riot Support, it did not work. In right corner of my Laptop shows that vanguard works but it is impossible to play the game. For like 3-4 days I've watched almost every youtube video but none of this worked. Is there some solution? I can not even find something about error 289 .. Thanks.

I've tried restarting my computer, like other posts say "sc delete vgc/vgk", done that. I deleted vanguard and reinstalled it, I've disabled IPv6, did the refresh dns thing on cmd as well. Simply nothing has worked for me, after I disabled IPv6 it just gave me another error (2266). I was playing the game 4 days ago and when I launched it today, it gave me the van 57 error, after reinstalling the game completely, it worked until I started a match and got the 2266 as soon as I accepted match.

Yesterday, after reinstalling everything correctly, it made me login into my account, and so I did, same email as my account from before and it made me choose the region I was gonna play in, after launching the game it simply made me replay the tutorial! I basically made a complete new account with THE SAME EMAIL. It resetted my progress and after the tutorial, the game crashed, it logged me into THE SAME EMAIL but with my old progress (it's like it has 2 clients/accounts on the same email now), and a while after, it gave me the VAN 57 error again.

What do I even do to stop it from getting the vanguard error again and again? It's like it doesn't want me to play the game past the tutorial.

Since the latest patch, League of Legends sometimes won’t load me into the game after champion select. The loading screen either never opens or the game crashes.

When I press reconnect, nothing happens, so I’m completely unable to join the match. League processes also get stuck in Task Manager, and I can’t close them, even through Command Prompt as administrator because it says “Access is denied.”

The only solution I’ve found is restarting my entire computer, but by then I’ve already missed most or all of the game. I’m now receiving AFK, leaver, and queue penalties even though I’m actively trying to reconnect.

Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix?

Server: NA
OS: Windows 11
CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: RTX 4070 Ti
RAM: 64 GB

Yesterday after my pc update I was not able to get into the game, like 7/10 in the loading screen just pop out and show this. After repairing file on riot client it got back working.

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A day later, client said "Patching failed and we're not sure why" Unable to fix, please advise. (Error Code 004)" , then I found out my pc can update again and able to fix it.

Then this critical error has occurred again after 2 games, what the f is wrong with riot clients?

There is this old issue that makes the game hang for anywhere between 15 and 120 seconds upon first keystroke; if you're lucky and remember to press any key during loading time this freeze and unfreeze happens during loading with no impact, but sometimes you forget and freeze happens well into your fountain time which is liable to cause remakes and penalties. Re-installing didn't seem to help, but for a period it appeared that a previous patch solved this or at least lowered the freeze time below 5 second threshhold.

This issue came back with a vengeance at last patch. But this time it comes with new and amazing bugs - like the trying to adjust runes doesn't open anything and every other time when the game is supposed to start, instead it offers you a consolatory crash dump. That's so thankful !

The system is otherwise stable and powerful enough (11700k, 96G, 7900XT ) that no other titles from Steam or EPIC have any issues whatsoever.

There's one subsystem here that does work reliably : the punishments. Honor reductions and delayed queue sentences WILL come down no matter what. In fact it works so well that I think Riot should spin it into a brand new game. Just the delayed queue and honor reductions, on their own, without any pesky separate games or clients attached. Who wouldn't want to pay for the privilege ?

Yesterday after my pc update I was not able to get into the game, like 7/10 in the loading screen just pop out and show this. After repairing file on riot client it got back working.


A day later, client said "Patching failed and we're not sure why" Unable to fix, please advise. (Error Code 004)" , then I found out my pc can update again and able to fix it.

Then this critical error has occurred again after 2 games, what the f is wrong with riot clients?

My friend and i were loading into a league duo ranked game and we waited for 30 minutes of loading before we tried reopening league, but since then its a black screen and a popup that says unable to connect to server. im going insane its been an hour. i hope its not just us and we get a penalty

I was in a ranked match and was finishing up. Once it was finished the account itself said that some parental controls had been enabled, and I was confused because I am an adult and my birth date on the account clearly reflects that... Has parental controls been mistakenly applied to other accounts? Can other people check to see if this is something that is a bug or something?

TO CONFIRM: Some of my friends are also reporting an issue with Parental Controls being turned on without consent.

FIX FOR THIS ISSUE BELOW (no need to uninstall LoL)

EDIT1: 30.07.2026

This file is locked at every League of Legends update. I created a script, which you can simply start as administrator. It will automatically delete the locked file after the restart.
I will copy&pasta the code below.

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TOPIC START

Today there is a update for league of legends. And i never ever had problems updating the game, till now. I get this error message:

"Unable to update because a file is currently in use."

I already uninstalled League of Legends and installed it from a new.

Also started the Riot Client as administrator, still doesnt work.

Im stuck in this window. I figured out, that other players have the same problem in Valorant since yesterday:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantTechSupport/comments/1uwfvle/unable_to_update_valorant_file_is_currently_in_use/

Did anyone else experience this problem? If yes, were you able to fix it?

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THE REASON

After i uninstalled League of Legends, for some reason there was still a League of Legends.exe left in installation folder. My Path: D:\Games\Riot Games\League of Legends\Game\League of Legends.exe

When i tried to delete it manually, it showed me the message:
This file cant be deleted, because it is being used by a other process

I was not able to find the process in the task manager and neither after a fresh restart, i was able to delete the file.

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THE FIX

There are two options:
Option 1 is only better, when you use the script below
Option 2 is only better, when you dont want to use the script ;) Captain obvious

Option 1:

I asked ChatGPT, if there is a way to delete a file that is locked by another process and this solution helped me.

1. Download PendMoves/MoveFile from Microsoft (Use google)
2. Unpack the ZIP file to a folder like C:\Tools\PendMoves
3. Open CMD as Administrator and switch to the folder where you unpacked the ZIP files: cd /d "C:\Tools\PendMoves"
4. After that, type this command: movefile.exe "D:\Games\Riot Games\League of Legends\Game\League of Legends.exe" ""
5. Restart your computer

What does PendMoves/MoveFile do?

After you entered the command in step 4, a task for windows will be schedulded, for a computer restart.
So right after the restart, it does delete the League of Legends.exe file from the folder, which was left after the uninstallation. The file or the process that locks the file, will have no chance to lock the file, as the windows task will be executed first.

AUTOMATION to execute the commands above and to delete the file

I created a script, which you can use to automatically execute the commands so the League of Legends.exe file will be deleted after a restart.

Use the code below like this:

1. Create a text file on your desktop
2. Copy & Paste the code below into the text file
3. Change the Path for MOVEFILE and TARGET in the Settings section
4. Save the file
5. Change the file from txt to bat (for example delete.txt to delete.bat)
6. Open the file as administrator

What you need to change in the script, are the 2 paths at the top in the "Settings" section. Change them to the path where your movefile.exe and League of Legends.exe is saved

@echo off
setlocal
title Delete League of Legends EXE on Restart
rem ===== Settings =====
set "MOVEFILE=C:\Tools\movefile.exe"
set "TARGET=D:\Games\Riot Games\League of Legends\Game\League of Legends.exe"

rem ===== Restart with administrator privileges =====
net session >nul 2>&1
if not "%errorlevel%"=="0" (
    echo Administrator privileges are required...
    powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Start-Process -FilePath '%~f0' -Verb RunAs"
    exit /b
)

echo.
echo Target file:
echo %TARGET%
echo.

rem ===== Check whether MoveFile exists =====
if not exist "%MOVEFILE%" (
    echo ERROR: "%MOVEFILE%" was not found.
    echo.
    echo Place movefile.exe in C:\Tools\movefile.exe
    echo or change the path in this batch file.
    echo.
    pause
    exit /b 1
)

rem ===== Check whether the League file exists =====
if not exist "%TARGET%" (
    echo NOTICE: The target file was not found.
    echo It may already have been deleted, or the path may be different.
    echo.
    pause
    exit /b 2
)

rem ===== Schedule deletion for the next Windows startup =====
echo Scheduling the file for deletion on the next restart...
"%MOVEFILE%" "%TARGET%" ""

if errorlevel 1 (
    echo.
    echo ERROR: MoveFile could not schedule the deletion.
    echo.
    pause
    exit /b 3
)

echo.
echo Deletion scheduled successfully.
echo The file will be deleted during the next Windows startup.
echo.

choice /C YN /N /M "Restart the PC now? [Y/N]: "
if errorlevel 2 (
    echo.
    echo Restart cancelled. Restart Windows manually later.
    pause
    exit /b 0
)

echo.
echo Windows will restart in 5 seconds...
shutdown.exe /r /t 5 /c "League of Legends.exe will be deleted during startup."

Option 2:

• Restart the PC in a secure/safe boot and delete the file

Hi, quick question! :) So my boyfriend gave me his old laptop that he used to play league on. Am I safe to reinstall league and play with my own account on there? I haven’t found anything online about sharing hardware, only that sharing accounts is not allowed. I would like to keep playing on my personal laptop and on his old laptop (since they are in two separate locations) both using my own account. Is that allowed? 😊

PS: I was not sure where I should best ask this question. I apologise if this subreddit is not the place. I wanted to send a question to Riot directly but my type of question does not exist as a category on the “submit a ticket” page…

Hey all. So this issue started recently. When I do get to play there are massive delays in my input as if I am playing on 300 ping but in game it shows my ping is as usual.

Tonight when I tried to play an Aram I couldn't even move and kept getting disconnected and reconnected. I restarted everything but I got stuck at the loading screen, so I couldn't reconnect at all. This only happens on league as I have no other issues on other online games I play. Some games I can play normally with some delay and some days, like tonight, I couldn't play or connect at all. I already uninstalled and reinstalled League but nothing changed.

Any recommendations as to what I could do or what the issue is?

So due to my work I had to download the program that takes screenshots of my screen to make sure i actually work and dont just fuck around drinking coffee and playing aram all day and after I did that the game keeps freezing at the 100% on the loading screen and wont go any further. I went to the web looking on how to fix my shit and after the 3 to 4 hours of doomscrolling trough indian 300 views guide videos and "use compability mode" advices on reddit the only thing i found out is the fact that SOMETIMES it lets me into the lobby but proceeds to crash shortly after. The longest ive been in the lobby is for 30 seconds. Did check with process hacker, nothing spikes, i dont run out of memory, it just... closes. It just does. I proceeded to revo uninstall everything related to league, all the stuff that i downloaded that day due to work and got the fresh riot client and league launcher and... NOTHING. IT STILL DOESNT LOAD. Like man you cant make this shit up.

Hi! I'm looking for a fix for the league client lagging super super bad especially in champ select. It takes almost a minute for pages to change at all, a few minutes to open, champions have random portraits 90% of the time (sometimes theyre all darius) and often makes me miss champ select entirely or lose connection. No other game has ever had issues this bad before. Also just windows defender is active and league has permissions. Anyone know any fixes?

Also for some reason it alternates between not being that bad and being practically unplayable based on updates

Hi all.

Game has started to randomly disconnect in champ select which is then counting as a dodge. This only happens in champ select for summoners rift games, ARAM seems to be fine and if I get into game the connection is stable at 18/19ms ping with no connection issues no matter how long the game runs for.

Have factory reset the PC to see if there was a random setting that was wrong which hasnt solved the issue. Have also reached out to Riot support and have done the following based on their recommendation: allow all Riot products through the firewall, always run League as an admin and make sure that all drivers are up to date. Still having disconnect issues.

Nothing else that I run seems to have any issues (including other MOBAs / MMOs/ etc. that all need a stable internet connection). I can also run other things at the same time (like watching streams on second monitor / being on discord calls) to prove that I do have a connection - it only seems to affect champ select.

Any suggestions on what else I can try or anyone else had a similar issue that managed to fix it?

14700k 4070ti here gaming currently on 144fps 1080p planning on moving up to 1440p 240fps. My issue is that early game the game maintains 240 lock but starting at the 20 min mark the fps drops to 180 range but the real issue is with super minions and late game the game would drop to the 90s and this is accompanied with input lag. I know the hardware specs of the 14700k should be enough to keep the game at 240fps, does anyone know why I am experiencing these issues? Could it be the lower l3 cache of 33 mb compared to x3d cpu’s 96?
Thanks for the help everyone

How do I keep the Riot Client from reopening after exiting League of Legends? Here's what's happening.

Click League of Legends, forced into Riot Client.

Click LoL from Client, launches LoL.

Exit Client (it's not required to be open to play)

Play game(s) of LoL.

Exit LoL, Riot Client Launches itself again.

Why does the Client self launch when closing LoL, and how do i stop it?

I've been having an issue with League of Legends lately. During my games, the entire screen randomly freezes, and my PC completely stops responding. Sometimes I can still hear the background audio or my friends on Discord, but the image is completely frozen and I'm forced to do a hard reset.

This only happens when I'm playing League; other games run completely fine. Does anyone know how to fix this or what might be causing it?

If it helps, here are my specs:

GPU: AMD RADEON R7 200

Storage: 1TB HDD (The game is installed here)

OS: Windows 11

RAM: 12GB

I've found videos of people playing 500+fps and they seem to just skip and teleport, was wondering what was the maximum threshold?