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Jan 21, 2020

Tutorial: How to run Legacy and Chromium-based Edge simultaneously side by side Without Group Policy

1. Uninstall Chromium Edge either from Control panel or from Windows 10 settings => Apps

 

2. Go to Registry Editor by typing "regedit" in Windows 10 search

 

3. Navigate to: 

 

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft​

 

 

OR paste this in the address bar area of Registry editor

 

 

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft​

 

 

 

 

4. Right-click on "Microsoft" and create a new key

 

 

 

And name it "EdgeUpdate" (without quotes)

 

 

 

5. Then right-click on "EdgeUpdate", go to New and create a new DWord 32-bit and call it "Allowsxs" (without quotes)

 

 

Allowsxs

 

 

 

 

 

6. Set its value to 1

 

 

 

7. Exit Registry Editor

 

8. now go to www.microsoft.com/Edge to download Edge stable again. install it and after that you will be able to access both Legacy and new Edge from start menu or Windows 10 search.

 

 

Source:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-update-policies#allowsxs

 

 

This tutorial is for using only Registry editor, there is also another method to do this which is through Group Policy

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/deployedge/microsoft-edge-sysupdate-access-old-edge#how-to-enable-a-side-by-side-experience-with-both-versions-of-microsoft-edge

 

for that you also will need the policy files which you can get from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download

 

 

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