Does anyone know how to uninstall Edge?

[Círeth]

Microsoft keeps trying to cram it down my throat and today it installed a search bar on my desktop without permission. I removed it immediately, because I saw it do it.

I am extremely annoyed. The harder Microsoft tries to push Edge on me the less I want anything to do with it and the more tempted I am to uninstall it from the command line and edit the registry to get rid of it permanently.

Yes, I know, touching the registry at all is a VERY. BAD. IDEA!!!!

But I am almost angry enough to do it. I don't want Edge. It's malware to me at this point.

So does anyone know how to safely assassinate this blasted browser without potentially accidentally completely breaking Windows by messing with the registry?

 

[Tall Timbers]

They've kind of integrated it into the OS so at least on the surface, you can't uninstall it. There may be a way but there's a good chance you'd end up having problems with the OS. There are a couple of edge related lines in the task manager that are stopped on the computer I'm using.

 

[Círeth]

They've kind of integrated it into the OS so at least on the surface, you can't uninstall it. There may be a way but there's a good chance you'd end up having problems with the OS. There are a couple of edge related lines in the task manager that are stopped on the computer I'm using.

Yes, I'm aware that they tried to make it integral to the OS. That's why the only way I can think of to get rid if it is to force uninstall via command line and then edit the registry. I don't think I'd have problems with it after that (as long as I didn't accidentally break the registry and thus the whole system) but if I did there's probably a fix out there somewhere for that.

My problem is I can't seem to find a less drastic way to be rid of it but I am desperately hoping there is one and someone here knows how.

I'm happy with Firefox and I don't need Edge trying to interfere with my system.

 

[Carl]

Yes, I'm aware that they tried to make it integral to the OS. That's why the only way I can think of to get rid if it is to force uninstall via command line and then edit the registry. I don't think I'd have problems with it after that (as long as I didn't accidentally break the registry and thus the whole system) but if I did there's probably a fix out there somewhere for that.

My problem is I can't seem to find a less drastic way to be rid of it but I am desperately hoping there is one and someone here knows how.

I'm happy with Firefox and I don't need Edge trying to interfere with my system.

Good luck. Microsoft is now pretty much telling us users that it is the boss. That is why I have used XP until this day. But now the internet sabotages XP in so many ways. And doesn't communicate with XP that it can understand. There is always that L? operating system.

 

[Chris]

Yes, I'm aware that they tried to make it integral to the OS. That's why the only way I can think of to get rid if it is to force uninstall via command line and then edit the registry. I don't think I'd have problems with it after that (as long as I didn't accidentally break the registry and thus the whole system) but if I did there's probably a fix out there somewhere for that.

My problem is I can't seem to find a less drastic way to be rid of it but I am desperately hoping there is one and someone here knows how.

I'm happy with Firefox and I don't need Edge trying to interfere with my system.

My advice is to not open Edge at all. Edge is on my computer, but I never open it for anything.

If you don't open it, it doesn't have the opportunity to do something you don't like.

I'd start by looking at your system default programs and make sure Edge is not listed as a default program.

I agree with the others, they have made it integral to the Windows OS that it would probably be difficult to delete completely.

 

[Jaybird]

I have an Apple computer so no need to worry about Edge, maybe other things?

 

[Tall Timbers]

I have an Apple computer so no need to worry about Edge, maybe other things?

Siri, and probably other things. My Apple phone which I only use for the program that allows me to manage my neurostimulator is always interrupting and asking to activate Siri. I think every major platform has something it tries to push on users. For MS it's currently Edge and their AI search engine. Samsung phones used to pester you to use Bixby but they're not trying as hard lately, which is a nice reprieve... If you use firefox Mozilla pester's you for one thing or another, like their VPN.

 

[GEOINTAnalyst]

Microsoft says its new Edge web browser cannot be uninstalled but that is simply not true. The right PowerShell command entered in the right folder can accomplish the task.

In Windows 11 Go into this folder

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\92.0.902.67\Installer

now right click inside the above folder and select "Open in Windows Terminal"

now run the following command

.\setup.exe -uninstall -system-level -verbose-logging -force-uninstall

Edge is gone

 

[Tall Timbers]

Edge is gone

Woohoo!

 

[Círeth]

Good luck. Microsoft is now pretty much telling us users that it is the boss. That is why I have used XP until this day. But now the internet sabotages XP in so many ways. And doesn't communicate with XP that it can understand. There is always that L? operating system.

I use Linux but there are some things I can only do on Windows unfortunately.

 

[Wally]

Some of my sites I need to use only run under edge.

I've wanted to go to Linux many a time.

Just because...

 

[GEOINTAnalyst]

I use Linux but there are some things I can only do on Windows unfortunately.

So do I - https://sourceforge.net/projects/expirion-linux/ - based on Debian

 

[wanderingfreeman]

Are you married to windows as an OS? Consider switching to linux. If you absolutely need to have "windows" for some of your programs, linux has emulators that can perform that function

 

[lightofmylife]

I went to my control panel which is windows systems go to your programs and you can change it by uninstalling.