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joshuad
Copper Contributor
Jan 07, 2020
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Prevent First Time Run screen on Edge Beta

Hello all!   I'm working on a project where we are transitioning from Internet Explorer into Microsoft Edge. We've been specifically waiting for the Microsoft Edge Chromium build to be released. Si...
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    joshuad
    Feb 13, 2020

    This is now in their latest build.

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KrisSmith
Brass Contributor
Jan 13, 2020

joshuad Looks Like the feature we need is in the pipeline.

 

Looking at the policies available in Canary build We found:

 

 

Having an Educated guess at the Reg keys we have:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
"HideFirstRunExperience"=dword:00000001

 

This is not yet in Dev or Beta so I'm assuming its not going to make it in time for the first release but hopefully will make it to v81. 

 

Works on Mac too by the looks of it.

 

Kris

 

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    joshuad
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 13, 2020

    KrisSmith 

     

    Absolutely amazing catch. I'm extremely excited to see they have this in their pipeline. 

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      KrisSmith
      Brass Contributor
      Jan 14, 2020

      joshuad 

       

      to give credit, one of the guys here posted on Slack and got a reply from someone at MS to say they were looking at it, hence investigating Canary.

       

       

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