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'Work - Edge' Desktop Shortcut Reappears after deleting and reopening Edge Browser
End user removes the spam Desktop shortcut labeled 'Work - Edge': Once they reopen the Edge browser, the app shortcut reappears.
Hi Everyone - The fix for this was released to Microsoft Edge Beta Version 117.0.2045.12. If you have access to the Beta Channel, please test and let us know if the issue has been resolved.
The fix should also be included in the next Stable release, which should be later this week if there are no delays. Thanks!
-Kelly
DubDubDan, any update on how the GPO change worked out? Did Microsoft support have a suggestion for Intune managed computers as well?
So far no work - edge shortcut has re appeared since applying the GPO to me only Thursday, just updated from 117.0.2045.55 to .60 and no shortcut created either, which i was half expecting,
Gonna roll out to everyone today i think and then go and hide somewhere
Gonna roll out to everyone today i think and then go and hide somewhere
James_Esp unfortunately still no solution if you can't apply via GPO... Still running daily compliance searches for the shortcuts and running my powershell script against the list to delete them out... Can't do this forever though!
- chrisco341 Looking at my registry it seems to have created the below entries
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\
DWORD RemoveDesktopShortcutDefault 1
DWORD UpdateDefault 2
if you have a way to push these out to the HKLM you could try that
I had to delete the icons manually that were already there, but they haven't come back (yet)- I can push them out via CLI, its just more manual and time consuming. I've been hoping MS just fixes the issue. I may have to do this though for staff who we are seeing the most icons for. Thank you
