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Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime can't be uninstalled.
I've been redirected(from there) to ask here about one issue I have. Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime keeps getting installed on my PC. I can't uninstall it as next day it somehow installs itself back...
- Hi, WebView2 isn't something you use and see it in action, there is no user interface for you to interact with, it's the backbone of other software that rely on it. Windows 10 has WebView 1 installed by default in it, number 2 is the one that's based on Chromium.
can't tell why exactly you have it without knowing what's on your computer.
which Windows 10 build are you using?
HeyPavelDobCZ23
I don't know if this will help but I managed to keep webview2 off my OS by not being connected to the internet at startup (from a restart) I'm not sure if this works with shut down/ power on. I just unplug my LAN whenever I need to restart and don't have wifi on autoconnect. I also don't have edge and chrome on my OS
Hope this helps
Webview2ux I don't believe there is a fix, this is installed in the background automatically. I manually delete (uninstall) each time I boot my PC.
- This isn't something you fix. As other posters have said, Webview2 is an engine that websites can run on. It is the same underlying technology that Microsoft Edge uses to display webpages. Before Webview2, if a developer needed to show web content within their application (without opening it in a separate browser) they needed to include a HTML/web engine with their software. Usually adding around 200MB to the download size of their application. This was called BYOB (bring-your-own-browser). The problem is, every application brought their own browser engine! So, if you had 6 apps with web/HTML content included, then you might have 6 identical browser engines installed, taking up over 1GB of storage capacity on your machine.
What Webview2 does, is it allows Windows applications to share the same HTML/Web engine. When an application needs to show a website, or HTML page, it asks Windows if Webview2 is already installed. If it is, it uses the one you already have. If not, it asks Microsoft to install the correct version.
In this way, the 6 application I just mentioned would all share the same browser engine fully supported, updated and secured by Microsoft. It was an excellent addition by Microsoft and will make people's desktop experience much better.
In short,
Microsoft added something that developers already included themselves, but it is better, smaller, faster and supported by Microsoft.
