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Copper Contributor

Aug 17, 2020

Can't uninstall and I need to.

I have an issue where I cannot open Microsoft edge even though it pops up in my task manager for about 3 seconds. I have tried everything from downloading it a second time as instructed when I looked ...

Neon01

Iron Contributor

Aug 18, 2020

Asylus

Did you try with another Edge channel, eg Dev or Canary? Let's say you're using stable Edge, download either Dev or Canary version from https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/download/ install and see if it opens. Then close all instances of Edge using the task manager and copy your original Edge user data to the new Edge version.

Edge:
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\<ProfileName>

Edge Dev:
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Dev\User Data\<ProfileName>

Edge Canary:
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\User Data\<ProfileName>

No guarantee, but I had to do it once and it worked for me that way. At least this should do as a temporary workaround until you solved the original problem and give you access to the things you've set up in Edge.