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csrswalch
Dec 15, 2019Brass Contributor
Group policy to disable the "Welcome to the new Microsoft Edge" dialog from FirstRun wizard
Any chance you could provide a group policy to hide the FirstRun Get Started dialog? In a managed environment it's largely redundant, or at least will be. Also more often then not these changes are c...
Gunnar-Haslinger
Dec 20, 2019Steel Contributor
I already reported this in October 2019, see: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Enterprise/Edge-v78-asks-User-on-first-start-which-New-Tab-Design-to-choose/m-p/909174
But no response yet.
I figured out how this "First Run Experience" ist triggered:
In the Edge UserProfile there is a file "Local state" which is as JSON formatted Settings-File.
The setting "has_user_seen_fre" has to be true, if not existent or false the First Run Experience is shown.
To prevent the First-Run-Experience I create an empty Edge-Userprofile just Containing a almost empty "Local state" file, just having this one setting in it. This solution is ugly but works.
As there is no Solution provided by Microsoft, I created a Script (as a workaround). I published it here: https://github.com/gunnarhaslinger/Microsoft-Edge-based-on-Chromium-Scripts
- LBXComputersJan 03, 2020Brass ContributorI too would like a policy to disable this.