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Copper Contributor

Aug 12, 2019

Microsoft Edge C reverting from 32 to 64-bit; setting Edge as default browser not working

Hi! We are currently testing Microsoft EdgeC in our environment. We have selected and manyally install the 32-bit version of Edge Dev. One of our team members has observed this following behavior...

Steve Rugh

Former Employee

Aug 13, 2019

Joe_Dono Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding the update changing bitness on update it looks like we have a bug that we need to fix with the MSIs for that.

Regarding the behavior of disabling auto-updates, we are looking into that more now.

Regarding the default browser setting, which policy are you using to try to do that?

Thanks for trying out the next version of Microsoft Edge!

-Steve

Joe_Dono
Copper Contributor
Aug 19, 2019
Steve Rugh

Hi! attaching a screenshot of the GPO policy setting we are using
- Steve Rugh
  Former Employee
  Aug 19, 2019
  Joe_Dono Thanks for the additional info.
  
  What version of Windows are you running?
  
  This policy would only work on Windows 7. For more details, you can see more info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#defaultbrowsersettingenabled
  
  -Steve
  - Joe_Dono
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 19, 2019
    Steve Rugh
    
    Hi we are running Windows 10, v1809 with KB4509479
Joe_Dono
Copper Contributor
Aug 13, 2019
Steve Rugh

Thanks for the feedback, Steve!

I will see if I can get an answer to your last question for you.