When all my torrents finish, I remove them.
This is important to me because I use a VPN (Nord if you're curious) when downloading, and I'd like to disconnect it when I finish.

So I remove them and close the program. I press "exit", but the program still stays open in the task manager for some reason.
I can't reopen the program because when I try to it says "An older version is running."
So I go into task manager and end the task.

But when the program reopens, it says that it's "checking" the torrent, and when it finishes, it says "queue seeding".
This worries me because I don't know if it's trying to do things in the background when I'm not running the program?

I'm concerned about that kind of P2P activity happening over my network without my VPN active to hide it, since my ISP has already sent us a warning about P2P once before.

What can I do to make this thing NOT try to check torrents that I've already removed?