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Option to completely remove Microsoft News Feed
None of the often condescending ideas about improvement of Edge, or working around it are successful. I am FORCED to use Outlook by my college, or trust me I would not. If I open a link in Outlook, it FORCES Edge to open, where it inevitable fails. Microsoft - I OWN my computer, I paid for, I should have the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to remove ANY software I choose FOR ANY REASON. I want Edge gone FOREVER. I don't understand why you can't grasp this concept.
- well said
- 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- 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.
JesseKnapp This is a techcommunity board for discussions on the new Edge Beta based on Chromium, not a place for you to vent....
Like it or not there are a lot of dependencies in the Current version of Windows that use either Edge or IE so you're in cloud cuckooland if you think there will be an option to completely remove it.
Also out of all the applications could could have trash talked Outlooks is possibly the worst one to choose given the only viable alternative is Gmail and we all know how laggy that is and the fact Google Devs have permission to read your private emails.
Honestly if you're going to be preaching anti MS stuff here expect to be the black sheep.
you can always Install a linux platform to get rid of microsoft news feed Cameron_Bush
