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msbru
Aug 01, 2020Copper Contributor
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...
msbru
Aug 01, 2020Copper Contributor
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.
havill
Sep 05, 2020Copper Contributor
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.