Open this up and delete any folders relating to Microsoft Edge. Navigate into your 'Program files (x86)' folder on your C: drive and locate the 'Microsoft' folder within. Fortunately, if you run into this issue there's an easy fix. Some of the more recent Windows updates have seen issues with installations failing on machines that have removed Microsoft Edge. FAQs What to do if future Windows updates fail What this method won’t do is remove the default version that is pre-installed on Windows 10. Then find the version of Microsoft Edge in the apps list. There are multiple ways to do this, including via the Start Menu and searching from the Windows Search bar. There is actually one easy way to remove Microsoft Edge from Windows 10 assuming you’re using the Beta, Dev, or Canary channel builds. How to remove Microsoft Edge from Windows 10 in specific builds Microsoft Edge now should not automatically return on your PC. Click ‘OK’ and it’s safe to close the Registry Editor. Once created, double-click to open the key and change its value to ‘1’. Select ‘New’ then ‘DWORD (32-bit) Value’ and call this ‘DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium’. Name the key ‘EdgeUpdate’ and then right-click on it.
Right-click on the ‘Microsoft’ folder and select ‘New’, then ‘Key’. You can copy and paste this into the Registry Editor address bar. Open this up and navigate to the following location. Making changes to the Registry always carries risk and should be done carefully.Ĭlick the ‘Search’ button on the desktop and look for ‘Registry Editor’. For most people, editing the Registry is the easiest way to do this, but touching it always comes with a warning. Stop Microsoft Edge from reinstalling automaticallyįiguring out how to remove Microsoft Edge from Windows 10 is only half the battle, if you don’t stop it from being reinstalled automatically, then you might well find it has snuck back in during future updates. You may still see it in the Start Menu, but it won’t open anything and the annoying ‘Restore recommended’ for web browsing in the Settings app will have gone. There’s no restart involved, Microsoft Edge will now be removed from your system. Now, enter this command: setup -uninstall -force-uninstall -system-level Your Command Prompt will now change to show that you’re in the folder you navigated to above. You can find that information in the ‘About’ section of Edge’s settings.
When entering it, substitute ‘xx’ for the current version number of Microsoft Edge installed on your PC.
First, you need to navigate to the correct folder using this command: cd %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft\Edge\Application\xx\Installer Removing Microsoft Edge in Command Prompt is a two-step process.
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