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msbru
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Jul 31, 2020

Cannot Install or Uninstall web apps after reset

Hello, yesterday Edge had that issue with google search causing it to crash, meanwhile I didn't know that was a thing and for half an hour I was trying to find out ways to make it stop crashing and r...
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havill
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Aug 01, 2020

msbru I too did the exact same thing as you, and now I have the same problem as you.

 

I was able to uninstall the web apps by realizing that they're not real apps but located in a directory within Edge, but re-installation is not possible.

 

Note that installing web apps via other Chromium family browsers (like Chrome) still works.

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msbru
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Aug 01, 2020

havill I also noticed that you can still install from other edge versions, so I was on Beta and I was able to install from the normal edge, so now I use that and uninstalled the beta. I imagine a re-instalation should make it work again, but I'm fine now.

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    havill
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    Sep 05, 2020

    msbru FYI, I finally for it to work by removing the directories

     

    C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge

    C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\EdgeBro

     

    Doing this will make Edge think it's just been installed and jump through the welcome hoops.

     

    It also deletes all your browser related data, so don't do this unless you've backed up what's important to you or don't care.

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