Edge Beta / Dev / Canary not starting

As of this morning Edge Beta stopped working: if I double click on the icon nothing happens. I tried intalling Dev and Canary but the same thing happens. Only the stable edition keeps working. I'm...

bjmelchers
Sep 02, 2022
FIXED!!
I scanned the registry for 'MetricsReportingEnabled'. It appeared on my PC under Edge two times.
1. [Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\]
2. [Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3783096567-2060243791-1526209860-
1001\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\]
Deleted both and now I'm happy again.

josh_bodner

Former Employee

Aug 24, 2022

We'd like to get some info from anybody running into this, so if you are, can you please use the Windows Feedback Hub to file feedback?

josh_bodner

Former Employee

Aug 30, 2022

Also, the most recent Dev and Beta updates have a fix for one potential cause of this. If anybody is still running into this issue, can you check in Control Panel and see what version number you have?

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