How To Stop Microsoft Edge From Automatically Creating Desktop Shortcuts

Have you ever booted up your computer and notice a Microsoft Edge icon, that you haven't placed there before, junking up your desktop? Whenever Edge does an update, it automatically places an icon on the desktop. In this video I will show you how to stop this from happening in the future! This video will work on all version of Edge and running on Windows 10 and 11.

regedit location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
New Key Name: EdgeUpdate
DWORD (32-Bit) Value Name: CreateDesktopShortcutDefault

This video is for educational purposes. I'm not responsible for any damages! Follow at your own risk!

[Theunfortunate_soul]

Can this be applied to other applications as well?

[itsmenoname]

the only thing I keep on my desktop is the trash bin

[GiNodrog]

if it works leave it alone. i'm getting ever closer to completely going over to Linux Mint.

[princessa_ebunessa]

One of the best Windows tutorials I've seen on YT 🤍
Clear, concise, and helpful.

Special thanks for mention backups, thats really an ass-saving option if you accidentally mess up the registry.

[thefpvlife]

I simply started using Firefox because Microsoft shouldn't do this.

[itsmenoname]

i just delete all those and uninstall almost all windows store apps and after that the windows store itself .