Tips & Tricks How to disable Microsoft Edge

[Neville's Haze]

Have you ever used a cookie cleaner and been told you need to close Edge? Maybe you had to force it close so that a cookie cleaner could proceed to wipe internet tracks that don't exist because you don't even use Edge. Perhaps you have tried to remove it and have witnessed the build becoming unstable? Or maybe you've killed the process somehow in task manager or a firewall and after updating Windows found it running in the background yet again. Well I'm going to show you how to safely disable Edge.

1. Open Task Manager.
2. Click "More details" at the bottom of the Task Manager window, click on it to show more details.
3. Look for "Microsoft Edge". If you find it in the list, right click on it and select "End task".
   1. Note: If you did not find it running in the background that doesn't mean it doesn't run in the background, only that it wasn't running currently. Continue to the next step.
4. Go to the folder "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" and rename that folder to anything you wish. (It's nice append some text to it like "_remove" so I can easily re-enable Edge in the future if I desire.)

Edge should now be "disabled". Try using it if you want to confirm.

Microsoft to my knowledge can revert the folder back to the original file name and thus re-enabling Edge during the anniversary update, but just repeat the above steps.

Note:

If you PC doesn't allow you to change the name of the folder you don't have administrator privileges. Take ownership of the folder or right click on MicrosoftEdge file then Properties / Security / Advanced / click change (next to owner) and change to your username, then click Ok. After that click Edit, then add your username and give full permissions.

 

[Jimmy Collaros]

Good to try thanks..

 

[WhiteLocks]

The best thing to do with edge is delete it with a script.

 

[Neville's Haze]

The best thing to do with edge is delete it with a script.

I've tried my PC became unstable after an update. If you know how to do it with an update-able build please share; however deleting a process is not really better than disabling it

 

[Jimmy Collaros]

I've tried my PC became unstable after an update. If you know how to do it with an update-able build please share; however deleting a process is not really better than disabling it

Somewhere in the registry we can delete it but noone knows how to do..

 

[Wichestery2k]

Somewhere in the registry we can delete it but noone knows how to do..

I use a scrip I found on google and it works great... here is one:

You must be registered for see links

 

[Jimmy Collaros]

I use a scrip I found on google and it works great... here is one:

You must be registered for see links

Unfortunately windows 10 cannot delete everything we want. The big brother is always with you enen if you disable telemetry.

 

[RedDevilus]

I see people just use edge as pdf reader irl.

 

[saug05]

@Neville's Haze
Thank's Bro for your tutorial. But after I renamed the Folder and restarted my PC, the Edge Icon is still in Startmenu. OK, without function, but still there. Any chance to delete also the Edge Icon in Startmenu?

 

[Jimmy Collaros]

@Neville's Haze
Thank's Bro for your tutorial. But after I renamed the Folder and restarted my PC, the Edge Icon is still in Startmenu. OK, without function, but still there. Any chance to delete also the Edge Icon in Startmenu?

I think Edge is not uninstalled but he is not working..