Unable to uninstall Edge

timofort · Jun 15, 2024

Hello,

I'm living in France, in UE, and I'm unable to uninstall MS Edge from my computer, despite last Windows updates were installed. Despite MS has to propose it since march in UE.

When I right-click on Edge in my Start Menu, it shows an uninstall entry.

https://imgur.com/LM4cAW2

When I click on it, it opens "programs and features" and lets me to repair Edge only, instead of uninstalling Edge.

When I click on Edge in Settings/Apps, uninstall is greyed out :

https://imgur.com/3kjHPMx

I'm a Firefox user, on W10 as well as W11

Thanks.

NormanF · Jun 15, 2024

Go here to find your Microsoft Edge removal tool:

GitHub - ShadowWhisperer/Remove-MS-Edge: Uninstall Microsoft Edge silently, through an executable or batch script.

Uninstall Microsoft Edge silently, through an executable or batch script. - ShadowWhisperer/Remove-MS-Edge

github.com

I used it to remove a beta Edge when I wanted to install Edge for Business.

Works when you can't uninstall the browser through Installed Apps or though Control Panel Programs and Features applet.

FreeBooter · Jun 15, 2024

Microsoft has made it very difficult to uninstall Edge browser, but using an open-source tool you can still manage to uninstall Edge browser from your system.

cereberus · Jun 15, 2024

What is the obsession with removing Edge - why bother? You do not have to use it.

Edwin · Jun 15, 2024

cereberus said:
What is the obsession with removing Edge

I want Links to open in Chrome.

BamaInArk · Jun 15, 2024

Edwin said:
I want Links to open in Chrome.

I still have Edge installed on my pc however it's set to open links in Firefox.

Berton · Jun 15, 2024

Keep in mind that programs may still call for Internet Explorer in the process of installing and running to which end Windows has a file named iexplore.exe that will call Edge to open. Test that by putting iexplore.exe in a Run box. If that can't be completed the program may fail.

WAI · Jun 15, 2024

I like how wordpad/IE Microsoft says they are gone but uhh no they are just not in the programs folder. You can easily search

kelper · Jun 15, 2024

Revo Uninstaller Pro will remove Edge. I'm waiting to see what stops working! It removed 980 registry keys, 1,309 registry values, 1,856 folders and 9,737 files! That lot totalled 2.53 GB.

RD Mercer · Jun 15, 2024

kelper said:
Revo Uninstaller Pro will remove Edge. I'm waiting to see what stops working! It removed 980 registry keys, 1,309 registry values, 1,856 folders and 9,737 files! That lot totalled 2.53 GB.

Wow! that's interesting, I use Edge occasionally, so it really doesn't bother me.

NormanF · Jun 15, 2024

Microsoft Edge like Microsoft Internet Explorer, is baked into Windows.

It does make setting up web apps a breeze.

TraderGary · Jun 15, 2024

I find it interesting that when looking at "My Computer" for many of the forum regulars the browser used is Edge.

kelper · Jun 15, 2024

NormanF said:
Microsoft Edge like Microsoft Internet Explorer, is baked into Windows.

My Windows works fine after uninstalling Edge, so it's only half baked if at all!

Edwin · Jun 15, 2024

BamaInArk said:
I still have Edge installed on my pc however it's set to open links in Firefox.

Not, for instance, Links from within the Settings App..., they will open in Edge by default, no matter what..., unless, of course, you uninstalled Edge, then they won't open at all!!!

BamaInArk · Jun 15, 2024

Edwin said:
Not, for instance, Links from within the Settings App..., they will open in Edge by default, no matter what..., unless, of course, you uninstalled Edge, then they won't open at all!!!

Can you give me an example of this? What "Links" in the Settings App specifically? I am curious. I know there was some issues about this from a while back but can't remember specifics anymore. I can look under Apps > Default apps and I do see some things that still default to Edge even though I have Firefox as default. But it does allow me to change them. Extensions like .avif, .svg and .xht. There are a few showing that show no default set like .shtml and .webp.

Edwin · Jun 15, 2024

BamaInArk said:
Can you give me an example of this?

antspants · Jun 15, 2024

BamaInArk said:
Can you give me an example of this? What "Links" in the Settings App specifically? I am curious. I know there was some issues about this from a while back but can't remember specifics anymore. I can look under Apps > Default apps and I do see some things that still default to Edge even though I have Firefox as default. But it does allow me to change them. Extensions like .avif, .svg and .xht. There are a few showing that show no default set like .shtml and .webp.

Microsoft also decided that links in Outlook (App) and Teams will also be forced to open in Edge. There are Edge specific links in search also (I have found)

Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry

Microsoft is ignoring browser choice again

www.theverge.com

“It's the MICROSOFT-EDGE protocol (not the HTTP or HTTPS protocol), which will totally ignore the user's default browser selection and open the link using Edge”

microsoft-edge:https://blah.balh.blah
Or
microsoft-edge://

Edge uninstalled:

Some Windows features launch Edge instead of the user’s default browser · Issue #14 · mozilla/platform-tilt

There are at least three prominent Windows features that open URLs in Microsoft Edge and not in the current default browser. The user’s default browser choice should be respected when web pages are...

github.com

BamaInArk · Jun 15, 2024

Looks like these defaults to Edge do not allow anything else but Edge;

antspants · Jun 15, 2024

That’s right.

antspants · Jun 15, 2024

So is this a fact? (and I would put money on a senate inquiry, eventually, if this is at all correct) That If I send you a link in an email to your Outlook email address, and you open the email in Outlook (app) as far as I know, Microsoft hard codes microsoft-edge:// to the link, forcing the link to be opened in Edge. I am not 100% positive but I can’t check right at this minute.
Am I right, I don’t know?