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Why Is Microsoft resetting my default search engine to Bing without my permission?
Earlier today I was carrying out a search and a window popped up stating that an application outside Google had changed my default search engine. When I checked, all my search engines listed in the A...
Pretty sure this is caused by one of Microsoft's background tasks pushing Bing prompts again. I've seen BGAUpsell or similar tasks under Task Scheduler trigger these pop-ups after cumulative updates.
Check if you have that task running:
Win + R > type taskschd.msc
Go to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Application Experience
Look for BGAUpsell (or any Bing/Search upsell task) and disable it.
If it keeps happening, check edge://settings/search to re-add Google, but disabling that background task usually stops Edge from wiping your custom search engines.