Get rid of Browsers Extensions, it wants to be updated every day multiple times a day, tired of it

sdowney717 said:

Yeah, I don't want to do radical stuff like start over when the PC is otherwise working fine. I am a busy person. Lots of other things I am doing. And computers, I have found, are great eaters of time.

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What dcrone suggested really isn't all that radical.

What I suggested was extreme, no-nonsense, uber elimination. Nothing wrong with starting fresh. Nothing wrong with keeping the old boot if you want it too.

Not everything has a quick fix. If you can take the time to complain about the problem you likely have the time to fix it too. You just have to be willing to do the work.

Sometimes a little humour helps.

sdowney717 said:

Yeah, I don't want to do radical stuff like start over when the PC is otherwise working fine. I am a busy person. Lots of other things I am doing. And computers, I have found, are great eaters of time.

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We're not talking clean install of the OS. It's your Edge profile that is corrupted, not your Windows user account profile. You could have exported bookmarks and passwords, and re-built your Edge profile in the time you've spent on this 4 page thread. It's not that complicated or time consuming.

oldschool said:

We're not talking clean install of the OS.

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I am.

I recommended it as an option.

I didn't state that it was the only option and I did state sdowney717 could also keep the old drive with all the old issues as well.

If it were me and I were encountering crap like that after saving my personal data to a separate drive and having already tried all the other options available to me (and there were many listed here). IT would be major SYSTEM RESTORE time. IF that failed it would be REINSTALL OS time.

BUT that's me and I'm pretty darn RADICAL. I know just enough about PCs to be dangerous.

For me, when I save my personal data, I don't rely on some rinky-dink third party progie to do it for me and wait all day for dubious results.

Nope.

I go into Disk Management and start ripping and stripping, copying all those personal files onto a separate drive directly. No zipping. No nonsense.
The faster the drive the better. I can move them all into the "ARCHIVES" (My helium filled klunk drive array) later.

NEXT:

It's butcher time! I get to be merciless. There's no data to risk at this point. Everything important to me has been copied and tucked away on a separate drive. Now I can experiment with profiles and all that nonsense and when I FINALLY tire of the Cloud, or One Drive, or whatever third party nonsense that thinks it knows what is best for me, I can reinstall the OS and get back to more important things like rebuilding my browser so it doesn't happen again.

But that's me.

One thing I've learned ever since NVMe came out was that most times, when encountering a nasty recurrent bug, it's just faster and easier to reinstall the OS. Otherwise you can spend hours and days doing stuff that is totally fruitless when you could have already had a fresh OS installed that runs perfectly fine until next time. And we all know there will be a next time. So restore points for possible quick fixes, File History just for kicks, Windows Back up and Restore so you can tell yourself "I told you so", always at least one clone of your perfect OS tucked away in a dark, dry, cool corner, one third party program that claims to back up your system better than Windows, and at least one HUGE old and reliable drive for double copies of family pictures, insane documents, embarrassing moments etc. You know, important stuff. Call it Archives and organize it however you like.

Meh. Am I getting too old for this??

sdowney717 said:

At least it is not popping up many times per day like before.

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If it lets you know an Edge update is available (seven this month so far, five of which were security fixes), what's the problem?