Docker Desktop only opens if docker is not running in the backround first

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I recently installed Docker Desktop. I’m having this minor issue, where if docker is not running, then the Desktop UI app will open fine and start docker in the background. However, if docker is already running in the background, I have to go to the task manager, and close all running instances of docker before it will work.
Did anyone ever experience this?

Thanks

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how do you start Docker Desktop? Since the Docker daemon is running in the virtual machine of Docker Desktop, most people probably just clicks on the Docker icon to start it. So how do you start it? Running docker desktop start maybe?

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That’s normal behavior. The dashboard is just the ui part of Docker Desktop, which also has a backend part that runs in a vm.

You can “Go to the Dashboard” from the context menu of the Docker icon in the Windows Notification Area.