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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
for that you also will need the policy files which you can get from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download
- BruceRobertsSteel Contributor
- Thanks, all those 0s got me distracted, corrected it 🙂
- sarat350Copper ContributorHi Can you please tell if the same works in Virtual machine VM box .
I tried the same steps in my VM but still unable to see the old Edge version.
Kindly note that i have add the registry and also enabled the side by side launch in Group policy as well . But still no luck with Old Legacy EDGE Icon.
Is there any work around to this.
Thanks in advance
- thosrechtCopper ContributorThank you. If a PC doesn't yet have Chromium Edge, will this same procedure work if step #1 is skipped?