How Difficult is it to Uninstall Microsoft Edge? 

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

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

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

This is what we in the computing world call "anti-consumer".

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 :')

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

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.

It's easier to uninstall malware than Edge

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.

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

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.

Edge is a good browser, but it _is_ pretty much a Chrome reskin. They both use Chromium and have a very similar layout. The thing is, MS tries to force it on us so much it makes you wonder why.

You know, about a year ago i started using Edge just to have a concrete reason to hate it, but i actually grew up to enjoy it. It might be just some placebo effect, but it also seem to open up way faster than any other browser, probably because it's always partially opened in background (according to task manager)

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

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

'Hello everyone. Today I was randomly installing Windows 11 on a virtual machine...' Epic Enderman moment

I did it too, but I used another method. This method is so much easier, thank you! :) Btw I hate their punishment to use their browser, because most people don’t know how to uninstall it. You helped them the rightway

Windows: _YOU WILL NOT INSTALL ANYTHING ELSE OR USE ANYTHING ELSE. DONT YOU DARE REMOVE EDGE_ macOS: _Here's an easy toggle to select your default browser permanently. If you disable SIP in recovery you can sudo rm -rf Safari if that's what you want_ Linux: _Remove the browser, remove the home directory, hell remove the entire init system and kernel if you want to I ain't stopping ya_

0:02 Hey My Bring Me Back My Pumpkin, Hey

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

Windows 10 still has the legacy non-Chromium Edge that it will revert to if you remove the Chromium Edge, so you’ll have to delete that too in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps. I have to admire how MS puts out new versions before the end-of-life tbh, so before then the only benefit is which GUI is preferred.

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.

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

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.

This is just one of the reasons I switched to Linux after more than 10 years of using Windows. The amount of tweaks you have to do to have a usable system is crazy. Seriously, it's almost like Microsoft WANTS users to stop using it. If I HAD to use Windows, I would probably switch to Windows 7, because every version released later on only worsens the user experience. More telemetry, more lazy GUI's slapped onto archaic code and more data siphoned from the user. I understand if people HAVE to use Windows for a certain purpose (the adobe suite for some reason, multiplayer gaming with anti-cheat or work-related programs), and if all someone does is sit in their browser, Windows is perfectly fine for that. But the moment I decide I want my system to work differently (maybe I want custom shortcuts or a different theme or I want to use the command line) I'm almost always met with the need to install some program from a website I've never heard of, or I have to completely corrupt my install to the point that I can't get the newest updates. Yes, that's something you have to do if you want to theme "your" Windows. It's sad to see a good operating system turn into a pile of lazy code and ads, and I hope that Microsoft one day makes such a huge mistake that it'll completely ruin the market share, because that's pretty much where they're headed right now with the decisions they're making. That was my rant, thanks for reading.

I hate Microsoft for forcing you into their products, if you like it or not. They try so hard to make that you stick to their browser and OS, just because they want to have monopoly over all market shares. I couldn't install or boot into anything besides Windows on used PC I bought for little server project, I had to wipe the NTFS partition from hard drive just to make Linux bootable from USB stick because there was some kind of crap that tried to stop Linux from booting while Windows 10 was present on hard drive (and I tried several distros like Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch). And on top of that they make that SecureBoot requirement for Windows 11 to install and have partnership with Lenovo to ship their laptops with chips that prevent anything besides Windows to be installed on them. I could understand that monopolistic approach in 90s or even mid-to-late 2000s, but now Windows is so dominant on the market that it doesn't need any of that nonsense, it is already in most households all over the world. Just give people some choice Microsoft, at least when they are using your system.

Sick, Enderman has a new dj mix up

As a reminder Windows is pentimenti over pentimenti, so there's no way this can get better without outright redoing the NT kernel itself. Edge isn't a big problem compared to how the whole thing needs to pull a Longhorn to get itself together. For a reminder, the uploader did show what's supposed to be a "consistent" Win11, but......uh, Enderman you sure that is real and good enough? No pentimenti? Stable? No Edge?

Ah yes, Microsoft and their amazing advertising strategies. I guess they'll never change. They never cared about their customers, they only care about the money, and that's what makes Windows so bad.

Let me guess, the next time Windows updates, it will see that Edge has been removed and put it back, and make it the default browser, in the name of "integrity of system files".

I miss Covid time Enderman, man you're such a legend 🔥

Hey I heard that you live in Russia, but you can still install the new windows versions. I was wondering if you only can get windows 10 or 11 on a virtual machine, or can you get it with a VPN? I was wondering about this because I also live in Russia.

Q: What is Microsoft Edge for? A: To download Chrome. Q: And what is Chrome for? A: To look for "How to remove Microsoft Edge"

It's so annoying Microsoft does EVERYTHING to make Edge the browser of your system. It has set back to Edge as default so many times in the past. It even reinstalled it after system upgrades for me, when I used different methods to uninstall it since Windows 10 (even the "first" Edge version). Changing others to default was made extremely difficult and annoying for a reason by MS... I hate that so much!

bro which editing software you use ?

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

On Windows 11, Microsoft Edge can't be *completely* removed since it is used to render some parts of the system UI (like the taskbar or start menu)

This is the best malware removal I've ever seen

when you forget that you don’t have another browser yet and you uninstall microsoft edge

came for the action, stayed for the tunes

3:26 „Let's uninstall Chrome“ Proceeds to install „Chrome“ WAIT MINUTE?

there's nothing like the good old Firefox!

the program enderman used was Uninstall Tool, by CrystalIdea btw :)

I once just made a policy in a corporate antivirus that I managed that blocked Edge from loading. I didn't want to uninstall it, as there is the occasional, rare use-case of it, and I know how hard it is to reinstall if you ever change your mind, but I had far too many tickets of users using it, thinking it was IE (which was required for certain applications), and everyone was supposed to use IE or Chrome, as these were the only two browsers we supported and/or they were supposed to use. My support tickets for users accidentally using the wrong browser dropped like a stone after the change.

Well I'm not in favour of any company forcing you time to time to use their product. But it's not just MS that does this. Even Google too makes it nearly impossible to uninstall Chrome in Android, just it's not that annoying like in Edge's case and you can easily set the default browser to other. But Chrome is still there in your storage.

Sad to see that Microsoft's been doing this since the 1990s.

I absolutely need that for when I get my mom a Win 11 laptop in the next few days.

All you have to do is go to "file location" and then permentally delete it from there.. Great vids though! keep up the good work!

This is why it’s best to just not use candy crush os in the beginning. Just use Linux, fedora or Ubuntu if you don’t feel like tinkering.

3:32 "Well, i give up. Let's just uninstall Chrome." *Proceeds to install Chrome*

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.

Amigo tengo una duda, porque la gente bromea que los usuarios de Linux pasan un montón de trabajo para borrar o instalar un explorador en Linux? Es algo irónico? Porque es casi lo mismo que en Windows.

Okay, that is some BS right here. I get that Edge is a better browser now, but why force people to use it to a point that it’s really difficult to get rid of for any normal end user?

The Mozilla team reverse engineered how the default apps system works. In Firefox, one click to set as default works for like a year now.

Hey Enderman, i remember sometime ago, i saw a video with an APP or CMD command that uninstall all Microsoft apps, either calculador or edge, but i dont remember how to search and fins for this. any help, pls?

Thank you for this useful tutorial! I subscribe because I expect more good tutorials like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5:59 You should disable the option "Use hardware acceleration when available" in the Edge to solve the problem that words cannot be seen clearly in the white window.

The integration was so bad in the IE4 / Win98 era that I stayed on Win95 / NT4 longer than most people just to avoid having it on my system. IERadicator / LitePC / 98lite could remove it from 98 and some other OSes, but there were bugs in doing so, and just sticking with 95 / NT4 was way cleaner.

After a windows update, you will notice that edge is installed again and also even if you somehow keep removing it, you will find some links not opening or some search results not working and also in the start menu you are forced to use bing search and it will only open with edge if it's not installed it won't open...

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

Enderman: How difficult is it to uninstall Microsoft Edge? Also Enderman: *deletes MSEdge with 4-6 steps*

3:58 Firefox only takes one click. I don't know why they didn't built it in Chrome yet

Would you recommend Revo Installer instead of Uninstall Tool?

huh. i didn't know the setup actually *had* the ability to uninstall, and that it was simply blocked. i thought to remove it you would need to manually delete it, clean the registry, and hope that there aren't any related files buried in the deapths of the os that can cause problems. i'm gonna start using this command pretty much every time i install an os from now on

if you really were an inquisitive noob at least try removing the folder for edge

Simple , just stick to Windows 10 for now , and remove all the bloatware from the operating system with revo uninstaller or similar app. It even uninstalls the haunted microsoft edge.

I deleted the folder with all files, how do i get rid of the link to the (now) non existant executable from ms egde? Its still there when searching "Edge". :(

Right Click --> open file location(twice because it WILL mislead you to a start menu folder) --> manually delete that pile of trash.

POV: Coding this instead of coding a browser which is good

i don't usually defend microsoft, but i will just this once. i recently accidentally set waterfox as my default browser on windows 10, and had to go through and set pdf -> sumatra, svg -> inkscape, html -> sublime, http -> firefox, etc. etc. it was very annoying, and i would have really liked my default browser settings not to influence pdf's, svg's, etc.

from my experience, using these methods on windows 11 (dev insider) to remove edge, like with running the setup.exe with certain arguments, doesn't even work anymore. additionally, every windows update it comes back. my debloating script actually has to manually delete all folders and stuff for edge

i never thought of WN11 On a vm tbh my WN10 on a vm is always buggy and crashes at microsoft login

Microsoft edge is the new final boss of windows

But how about "MICROSOFT-EDGE", "MICROSOFT-EDGE-HOLOGRAPHIC" and other proprietary nonsense which isn't reassignable and can be opened only in edge? even if it isn't present on the system?

Was it really that hard? I remembered I tried to delete it in my old PC and I used an app called treesize and deleted the essential files, and MS edge was removed. Unfortunately I removed Chrome as well and I couldn’t reinstall it so I had to reinstall windows

I always knew that learning how to use the registry editor would be useful

Enderman, things only have gotten worse. For my job I require internet explorer, without MS Edge I cannot access that portal anywhere. MS Edge surely is wrong for the manipulation that Microsoft uses for you to use it, though as a browser compared to everything else it is quite nice and it somehow uses less ram.

Let's try to use "windows admin center" app! It's able to remove UWP apps which can't be removed from settings app. It's official MS tool for managing Windows remotely. Maybe it can remove Edge too.

As tiny11 user I've never installed Edge to begin with. But I don't know how to get rid of occasional MS Teams popups

Thanks you for all ❤

edge after uninstalling him: I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now

Oh and it reinstalls during updates and turns on run in the background on its own. And has random tasks always running in task manager even if you don't allow it to run in the background or start-up with the pc. This makes me consider Linux even more. But I kinda like being able to do things on my pc lol

if i download the noescape.exe that you put in your despriction in an old video, and run it? what will happen?

is there any way of setting the settings apps links to open in a good browser?

"winget uninstall Microsoft.Edge" ( with WinGet ) or "setup.exe -uninstall -system-level -verbose-logging -force-uninstall" ( CMD in Edge installation folder ) should do the trick I think.

it makes sense to have a browser as a system app, imagine if a novice user accidently uninstalled edge before having another browser installed, or if their other browser unexpectedly stopped working?

when i install hamachi client it restricted some of my folders permission so i uninstall it. and i change the permission but it still not letting me do anything to it plss help me my pc its broken :(

on windows 10, i just ran a bunch of debloaters, optimisers then used file explorer to manually delete the files

If you want to try another method, go to ‘Windows (C:)’, ‘Program Files (x86)’ and find the folder called ‘Microsoft’. Delete everything in it (you'll find all the MS Edge stuff in there) and then delete the folder itself. Empty your recycle bin and restart your computer. This method has kept my PC free of Edge for seven months now (as of end of July 2023) and the PC still works perfectly. Before this, Edge would reinstall itself every few days and I could only get rid of it temporarily with the "IObit Uninstaller" free software. I'm a retired plumber, not a PC expert, but I hope this helps you.

I've always thought why you cant uninstall Edge, its because if theres no browser, you cant access the internet (at least that mutch)

Ok, i have a trick, although it's not uninstalling it, you can basically break it, with all the exe files in the Microsoft edge program directory to something like .exe1, it will not run if you create a blank working executable file then rename to the same thing as what exe files where there (which is .exe1 now in this case) but don't rename it them to .exe1, just exe, then you don't get error messages you see, what i've noticed, alot of Microsoft programs will start Microsoft edge in the background, and windows will try to start the program every so often

In china, we can't connect to google,RU-vid and twitter,so we use VPN to connect.But to be convenient,we use edge because we can connect to microsoft

I like how you can activate windows with two simple commands but you can’t uninstall MS Edge no matter what commands you use or whether you run CMD as admin or not.

Did you know if you use the Task Manager, you can stop all the running Microsoft Edge applications and then it lets you just delete the base folder. I literally just deleted it np.

Can you give me a way to enable extra info in the "Please wait..." screen?

I found edge to be easy enough to remove (as a power user or better), but its annoying that windows update reinstalls this malware once in awhile. Also the annoying process to set the default browser was Microsoft's doing, they broke the function used to set the defaults automatically.

I once removed Edge from Windows 10 on my main computer by right-clicking the shortcut -> open file location and just deleting every file But it came back after like 5 days :(

Thank you!! I wanted so bad to unuinstall it!!!

I don't know if this is Windows' fault or the browsers', but I recently installed an old build of windows 10 in one of my computers. I tried to download Chrome with the legacy Edge browser but just didn't work, the download button wouldn't start the download. It took me a while to figure out, I had to install the new edge browser and then install chrome from there. Really tedious and frustrating!

Why does everyone hate Edge so much? It’s honestly not even bad. The context menus looks way better than any other browser (transparency effects) and it’s the only browser where you can enable Mica on Windows 11, so it matches all the other built in apps. Also, it has the best implementation of vertical tabs