How Difficult is it to Uninstall Microsoft Edge?

Today I am going to show you how hard it is to uninstall the browser integrated into Windows. It's been a long time and I just had to make that video. Microsoft's anti-competitive practices must end.

Hope you have a great day!

#endermanch #edge #malware

[Piostephanie]

Umm, you misspelled the subtitle, "let's uninstall Chrome" when you were meant to say "let's install chrome". Lol

[in]

It's easier to uninstall malware than Edge

[tesso]

this is like the "linux users installing a browser" meme but in reverse

[Kevin-xweo]

Also another HUGE issue. Even for people who WANT to use edge uninstalling and reinstalling is a pretty common troubleshooting step. So if edge breaks you're out of luck. The Microsoft store was 100% broken for me for about 2 years and I couldn't uninstall it and reinstall it to fix it just like you couldn't with edge. I basically just had to wait until some random update re-wrote whatever file was broken/corrupted and it randomly started working again. Microsoft needs to realize that doing stuff like this makes people LESS likely to use their web browser. Not more likely. Sure have it install with windows, have it shortcut itself on the desktop, and have it give a little "You sure you don't want to try edge?" pop up when you go to download firefox or chrome. But anything more than that is scummy and borderline malware IMO. If you have to go into the registry to uninstall something then I consider it malware.

[Uttp.Notroll]

Wait a sec, we were supposed to use the CMD prompt!?






I just went doom style and sent the Microsoft edge files too the trash bin and deleted them

[toex]

I like how they say "open PDFs in *your* browser" implying that you are still gonna use it for a weird link in some random system application that opens edge and searches in bing despite any defaults

[randomwindowsuser]

4:02 I think Firefox is better in this regard because it can somehow set itself as the default browser for all these file types without user interaction.

[frodo]

Also worth to mention that you get free edge install in every third windows update. Plus on every fourth defaults could magically reset back to edge :) And another fun fact what actually happened to me on windows 10, i have a small fight with edge that was coming back and when i finally fully removed it, ive got 3 errors everytime i opened up settings app (caused by missing edge like wtf you want to run edge process in bg while opening settings) and some minor system stuff was broken. But i was lucky enough to get fresh new edge again after next bigger quater update which fixed all my unwanted changes :')

[robertobokarev]

The only one way for Edge to become popular is to be as private as Hardened Firefox, not a fucking data miner like Google Chrome or Opera

[jsnotlout]

I love how this forces most users to download unsafe 3rd part uninstaller apps. Like Microsoft, this is practically malicious

[thecooldude]

Firefox can automatically set itself as default on 11 with one click. They reverse engineered the API.

[Blue_Razor_]

6:30 was the uninstall using Uninstall Tool necessary? or did you cut away on purpose to show the cmd command?

[TechHackZ]

4:20 when he has to set up the entries himself, sad music comes
it makes a lot of sense when sad music comes that time

[lHckrCmfr]

7:08 That's not a leftover of the now-uninstalled Edge Chromium by the way. That's a leftover of Edge UWP. You know, the now fully obsolete, useless, and non-functional version of Edge that predated the switch to Chromium? That thing is still part of Windows 11, albeit in a very crippled, forgotten state, to what should be no one's surprise by now.

You need to edit the AppX repository database with an SQLite editor to unlock the ability to uninstall that one too, and then there's removing the Internet Explorer optional package leftovers using install_wim_tweak. After that, all visible leftovers of Microsoft web browsers are gone for good. It should now follow as common sense that if you were to forget to install, or uninstall any alternative browsers, you'll have no web browsers on your Windows machine, period. As it should be.

Not to mention if you wanna debloat further, it might be helpful to start with a uupdump-built ISO of Windows 11 made on a Linux OS, since that one, conveniently, doesn't support provisioning the default appx packages into the ISO, meaning you start with no UWP apps aside from the truly critical system ones, like the start menu and Configuration apps. Edge UWP is still in that special top-most critical list, so you still have to manually delete it, but it's progress.

[Bockanator]

I think at this point the only reason we tolerate windows is because of how dependent we are for its program compatibility.

[simply_amazing]

Hi, do you mind making a video to help me out? My pc is bootlooping and I’ve tried all the advanced settings like safe mode and making a new user on command prompt but it does not work.

[Dokattak]

You could use Winaero Tweaker to basically immobilize Microsoft Edge. I’ve also heard about people renaming theEdge folder so the system doesn’t know where it is.

[DeepfriedChips]

this is an older version of windows 11, newer ones have made browser switching much easier but still the fact that it begun like this was still very annoying

[SlaggyGaggy]

It's not that hard to remove Edge right now. But in the future this is probably going to change as they integrate the browser tightly into the system causing it to lose functionality if uninstalled.

[afisap]

So what happened with the edge WebView2 runtime? Is it still works? Cause some program I've installed depends on it