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Option to completely remove Microsoft News Feed
I understand there may be reason higher up the corporate ladder for wanting the inclusion of the Microsoft News Feed permanently in one way or another but please add an option to completely remove th...
It sounds like you are venting about issues outside of Microsoft's control. 1) Forced to use Outlook by your college, that's an issue with your college. 2) Outlook forcing Edge, easy solution is to switch your default browser and that's what Outlook will use to open links. 3) Can't fully delete Edge since it's a system app, but you don't have to use it, switch your default browser.
In case someone needs it - for windows 10, update to edge with chromium, then uninstall it, then prevent it from re-installing. I suggest installing firefox first.
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\"
get version number
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\xx\installer (use the version number you found in place of xx
setup.exe –uninstall –system-level –verbose-logging –force-uninstall
to prevent updates or reinstall merge the following...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate]
"DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium"=dword:00000001
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\"
get version number
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\xx\installer (use the version number you found in place of xx
setup.exe –uninstall –system-level –verbose-logging –force-uninstall
to prevent updates or reinstall merge the following...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate]
"DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium"=dword:00000001
- So MS has been putting edge back in again and running it in the background. After the above. Find and replace all instances of msedge.exe with rundll32.exe (renamed to msedge.exe of course). Make sure to prevent the trusted installer from write access. rundll32.exe functions as a decent noop. Also, since bing, msn, etc.. cannot be blocked with the hosts. file as they are hard coded into the os now, block them with an external firewall. Better, yet - goto ubuntu / nextcloud / libreoffice /thunderbird / davX5.