Umm, you misspelled the subtitle, "let's uninstall Chrome" when you were meant to say "let's install chrome". Lol

It's easier to uninstall malware than Edge

this is like the "linux users installing a browser" meme but in reverse

Also another HUGE issue. Even for people who WANT to use edge uninstalling and reinstalling is a pretty common troubleshooting step. So if edge breaks you're out of luck. The Microsoft store was 100% broken for me for about 2 years and I couldn't uninstall it and reinstall it to fix it just like you couldn't with edge. I basically just had to wait until some random update re-wrote whatever file was broken/corrupted and it randomly started working again. Microsoft needs to realize that doing stuff like this makes people LESS likely to use their web browser. Not more likely. Sure have it install with windows, have it shortcut itself on the desktop, and have it give a little "You sure you don't want to try edge?" pop up when you go to download firefox or chrome. But anything more than that is scummy and borderline malware IMO. If you have to go into the registry to uninstall something then I consider it malware.

Wait a sec, we were supposed to use the CMD prompt!? I just went doom style and sent the Microsoft edge files too the trash bin and deleted them

I like how they say "open PDFs in *your* browser" implying that you are still gonna use it for a weird link in some random system application that opens edge and searches in bing despite any defaults

I love how this forces most users to download unsafe 3rd part uninstaller apps. Like Microsoft, this is practically malicious

Also worth to mention that you get free edge install in every third windows update. Plus on every fourth defaults could magically reset back to edge :) And another fun fact what actually happened to me on windows 10, i have a small fight with edge that was coming back and when i finally fully removed it, ive got 3 errors everytime i opened up settings app (caused by missing edge like wtf you want to run edge process in bg while opening settings) and some minor system stuff was broken. But i was lucky enough to get fresh new edge again after next bigger quater update which fixed all my unwanted changes :')

'Hello everyone. Today I was randomly installing Windows 11 on a virtual machine...' Epic Enderman moment

4:02 I think Firefox is better in this regard because it can somehow set itself as the default browser for all these file types without user interaction.

Firefox can automatically set itself as default on 11 with one click. They reverse engineered the API.

6:30 was the uninstall using Uninstall Tool necessary? or did you cut away on purpose to show the cmd command?

The only one way for Edge to become popular is to be as private as Hardened Firefox, not a fucking data miner like Google Chrome or Opera

I think at this point the only reason we tolerate windows is because of how dependent we are for its program compatibility.

this is an older version of windows 11, newer ones have made browser switching much easier but still the fact that it begun like this was still very annoying

I did it too, but I used another method. This method is so much easier, thank you! :) Btw I hate their punishment to use their browser, because most people don’t know how to uninstall it. You helped them the rightway

So what happened with the edge WebView2 runtime? Is it still works? Cause some program I've installed depends on it

7:08 That's not a leftover of the now-uninstalled Edge Chromium by the way. That's a leftover of Edge UWP. You know, the now fully obsolete, useless, and non-functional version of Edge that predated the switch to Chromium? That thing is still part of Windows 11, albeit in a very crippled, forgotten state, to what should be no one's surprise by now. You need to edit the AppX repository database with an SQLite editor to unlock the ability to uninstall that one too, and then there's removing the Internet Explorer optional package leftovers using install_wim_tweak. After that, all visible leftovers of Microsoft web browsers are gone for good. It should now follow as common sense that if you were to forget to install, or uninstall any alternative browsers, you'll have no web browsers on your Windows machine, period. As it should be. Not to mention if you wanna debloat further, it might be helpful to start with a uupdump-built ISO of Windows 11 made on a Linux OS, since that one, conveniently, doesn't support provisioning the default appx packages into the ISO, meaning you start with no UWP apps aside from the truly critical system ones, like the start menu and Configuration apps. Edge UWP is still in that special top-most critical list, so you still have to manually delete it, but it's progress.

Hi, do you mind making a video to help me out? My pc is bootlooping and I’ve tried all the advanced settings like safe mode and making a new user on command prompt but it does not work.

4:20 when he has to set up the entries himself, sad music comes it makes a lot of sense when sad music comes that time

I recently installed chrome, and I got a “Switch to faster, safer, and speedier browser! Microsoft edge” and then three days later, my whole screen turned white, and it said “finish setting up your computer, get Microsoft 365”

Windows 10 still has the legacy non-Chromium Edge that it will revert to if you remove the Chromium Edge, so you’ll have to delete that too in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps. I have to admire how MS puts out new versions before the end-of-life tbh, so before then the only benefit is which GUI is preferred.

You could use Winaero Tweaker to basically immobilize Microsoft Edge. I’ve also heard about people renaming theEdge folder so the system doesn’t know where it is.

Edge is a good browser, but it _is_ pretty much a Chrome reskin. They both use Chromium and have a very similar layout. The thing is, MS tries to force it on us so much it makes you wonder why.

Windows: _YOU WILL NOT INSTALL ANYTHING ELSE OR USE ANYTHING ELSE. DONT YOU DARE REMOVE EDGE_ macOS: _Here's an easy toggle to select your default browser permanently. If you disable SIP in recovery you can sudo rm -rf Safari if that's what you want_ Linux: _Remove the browser, remove the home directory, hell remove the entire init system and kernel if you want to I ain't stopping ya_

It's not that hard to remove Edge right now. But in the future this is probably going to change as they integrate the browser tightly into the system causing it to lose functionality if uninstalled.

I miss Covid time Enderman, man you're such a legend 🔥

when i install hamachi client it restricted some of my folders permission so i uninstall it. and i change the permission but it still not letting me do anything to it plss help me my pc its broken :(

This is what we in the computing world call "anti-consumer".

This is the best malware removal I've ever seen

0:02 Hey My Bring Me Back My Pumpkin, Hey

I consider myself to be quite tech savyy, however, last time I tried uninstalling Edge was a really long time ago, and I think at the time you possibly couldnt do it without risking to break your system because of just how deep it was onto the system. Since then, I switched to Linux and never cared to look back, but out of curiosity and in case someone I know of needs to get rid of it for performance issues, what's the way as of now? For 10 and 11. I remember being able to "uninstall" it, yet, after a restart, update, or a few days, it would get silently installed and defaulted once again. Has that changed?

Let me guess, the next time Windows updates, it will see that Edge has been removed and put it back, and make it the default browser, in the name of "integrity of system files".

It's so annoying Microsoft does EVERYTHING to make Edge the browser of your system. It has set back to Edge as default so many times in the past. It even reinstalled it after system upgrades for me, when I used different methods to uninstall it since Windows 10 (even the "first" Edge version). Changing others to default was made extremely difficult and annoying for a reason by MS... I hate that so much!

is it a windows 11 thing or am i missing something? i tried doing this on win10 and just deleted the files for edge with no extra steps

Hey I heard that you live in Russia, but you can still install the new windows versions. I was wondering if you only can get windows 10 or 11 on a virtual machine, or can you get it with a VPN? I was wondering about this because I also live in Russia.

On Windows 11, Microsoft Edge can't be *completely* removed since it is used to render some parts of the system UI (like the taskbar or start menu)

This is just one of the reasons I switched to Linux after more than 10 years of using Windows. The amount of tweaks you have to do to have a usable system is crazy. Seriously, it's almost like Microsoft WANTS users to stop using it. If I HAD to use Windows, I would probably switch to Windows 7, because every version released later on only worsens the user experience. More telemetry, more lazy GUI's slapped onto archaic code and more data siphoned from the user. I understand if people HAVE to use Windows for a certain purpose (the adobe suite for some reason, multiplayer gaming with anti-cheat or work-related programs), and if all someone does is sit in their browser, Windows is perfectly fine for that. But the moment I decide I want my system to work differently (maybe I want custom shortcuts or a different theme or I want to use the command line) I'm almost always met with the need to install some program from a website I've never heard of, or I have to completely corrupt my install to the point that I can't get the newest updates. Yes, that's something you have to do if you want to theme "your" Windows. It's sad to see a good operating system turn into a pile of lazy code and ads, and I hope that Microsoft one day makes such a huge mistake that it'll completely ruin the market share, because that's pretty much where they're headed right now with the decisions they're making. That was my rant, thanks for reading.

I tried the registrty key method and it says uninstall but the button doesnt work what do i do? and yes ive tried the folder one it doesnt get deleted too

i just deleted it by simply pressing on open file location on it and pressing delete and now when i search it in the start menu it says i can install it

I hate Microsoft for forcing you into their products, if you like it or not. They try so hard to make that you stick to their browser and OS, just because they want to have monopoly over all market shares. I couldn't install or boot into anything besides Windows on used PC I bought for little server project, I had to wipe the NTFS partition from hard drive just to make Linux bootable from USB stick because there was some kind of crap that tried to stop Linux from booting while Windows 10 was present on hard drive (and I tried several distros like Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch). And on top of that they make that SecureBoot requirement for Windows 11 to install and have partnership with Lenovo to ship their laptops with chips that prevent anything besides Windows to be installed on them. I could understand that monopolistic approach in 90s or even mid-to-late 2000s, but now Windows is so dominant on the market that it doesn't need any of that nonsense, it is already in most households all over the world. Just give people some choice Microsoft, at least when they are using your system.

3:26 „Let's uninstall Chrome“ Proceeds to install „Chrome“ WAIT MINUTE?

Yeah but what happens if now you search for something in the w11 search tool, and the search tool redirects to edge? There isnt any edge...

Thank you for this useful tutorial! I subscribe because I expect more good tutorials like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I'm not in favour of any company forcing you time to time to use their product. But it's not just MS that does this. Even Google too makes it nearly impossible to uninstall Chrome in Android, just it's not that annoying like in Edge's case and you can easily set the default browser to other. But Chrome is still there in your storage.

3:32 "Well, i give up. Let's just uninstall Chrome." *Proceeds to install Chrome*

everytime I try to save an image it comes up with the microsoft edge logo and when I open it, it opens a tab in microsoft edge with the image. I couldn't find a fix for it and its super annoying

is there any way of setting the settings apps links to open in a good browser?

Ah yes, Microsoft and their amazing advertising strategies. I guess they'll never change. They never cared about their customers, they only care about the money, and that's what makes Windows so bad.

The Mozilla team reverse engineered how the default apps system works. In Firefox, one click to set as default works for like a year now.

the program enderman used was Uninstall Tool, by CrystalIdea btw :)

Amigo tengo una duda, porque la gente bromea que los usuarios de Linux pasan un montón de trabajo para borrar o instalar un explorador en Linux? Es algo irónico? Porque es casi lo mismo que en Windows.

Q: What is Microsoft Edge for? A: To download Chrome. Q: And what is Chrome for? A: To look for "How to remove Microsoft Edge"

there's nothing like the good old Firefox!

Can you give me a way to enable extra info in the "Please wait..." screen?

i done the redegit thing and uninstall button showed up but when i click it nothing happens i tried every thing plsss help me

5:59 You should disable the option "Use hardware acceleration when available" in the Edge to solve the problem that words cannot be seen clearly in the white window.

The integration was so bad in the IE4 / Win98 era that I stayed on Win95 / NT4 longer than most people just to avoid having it on my system. IERadicator / LitePC / 98lite could remove it from 98 and some other OSes, but there were bugs in doing so, and just sticking with 95 / NT4 was way cleaner.

is there anyway to remove edge from start menu after doing these

what happens if you just try to delete is from file explorer?

Sad to see that Microsoft's been doing this since the 1990s.

This is why it’s best to just not use candy crush os in the beginning. Just use Linux, fedora or Ubuntu if you don’t feel like tinkering.

bro which editing software you use ?

0:44 is pov: average ncs song

Okay, that is some BS right here. I get that Edge is a better browser now, but why force people to use it to a point that it’s really difficult to get rid of for any normal end user?

3:58 Firefox only takes one click. I don't know why they didn't built it in Chrome yet

can you uninstall it without deleting the app folder or uninstalling tool

As tiny11 user I've never installed Edge to begin with. But I don't know how to get rid of occasional MS Teams popups

Enderman: How difficult is it to uninstall Microsoft Edge? Also Enderman: *deletes MSEdge with 4-6 steps*

As a reminder Windows is pentimenti over pentimenti, so there's no way this can get better without outright redoing the NT kernel itself. Edge isn't a big problem compared to how the whole thing needs to pull a Longhorn to get itself together. For a reminder, the uploader did show what's supposed to be a "consistent" Win11, but......uh, Enderman you sure that is real and good enough? No pentimenti? Stable? No Edge?

All you have to do is go to "file location" and then permentally delete it from there.. Great vids though! keep up the good work!

well I usually just delete the files from my pc should I do like you?

Enderman, things only have gotten worse. For my job I require internet explorer, without MS Edge I cannot access that portal anywhere. MS Edge surely is wrong for the manipulation that Microsoft uses for you to use it, though as a browser compared to everything else it is quite nice and it somehow uses less ram.

"winget uninstall Microsoft.Edge" ( with WinGet ) or "setup.exe -uninstall -system-level -verbose-logging -force-uninstall" ( CMD in Edge installation folder ) should do the trick I think.

i tried to set the defult app for pdf files from edge to a different browser and the settings app froze after I did

I once just made a policy in a corporate antivirus that I managed that blocked Edge from loading. I didn't want to uninstall it, as there is the occasional, rare use-case of it, and I know how hard it is to reinstall if you ever change your mind, but I had far too many tickets of users using it, thinking it was IE (which was required for certain applications), and everyone was supposed to use IE or Chrome, as these were the only two browsers we supported and/or they were supposed to use. My support tickets for users accidentally using the wrong browser dropped like a stone after the change.

i don't usually defend microsoft, but i will just this once. i recently accidentally set waterfox as my default browser on windows 10, and had to go through and set pdf -> sumatra, svg -> inkscape, html -> sublime, http -> firefox, etc. etc. it was very annoying, and i would have really liked my default browser settings not to influence pdf's, svg's, etc.

You know, about a year ago i started using Edge just to have a concrete reason to hate it, but i actually grew up to enjoy it. It might be just some placebo effect, but it also seem to open up way faster than any other browser, probably because it's always partially opened in background (according to task manager)

Was it really that hard? I remembered I tried to delete it in my old PC and I used an app called treesize and deleted the essential files, and MS edge was removed. Unfortunately I removed Chrome as well and I couldn’t reinstall it so I had to reinstall windows

Omg bro I watched your videos like 7 years ago on another account and I finally found you again

POV: Coding this instead of coding a browser which is good

Oh and it reinstalls during updates and turns on run in the background on its own. And has random tasks always running in task manager even if you don't allow it to run in the background or start-up with the pc. This makes me consider Linux even more. But I kinda like being able to do things on my pc lol

Do you know why edge and chrome pop-ups in VMs are kind of more white that they should be?

after uninstalling microsoft edge, do i restart my computer to take effect?

when you forget that you don’t have another browser yet and you uninstall microsoft edge

But how about "MICROSOFT-EDGE", "MICROSOFT-EDGE-HOLOGRAPHIC" and other proprietary nonsense which isn't reassignable and can be opened only in edge? even if it isn't present on the system?

what toll did you use to unistall?

3:50 Removing the ability for random programs to set themselves as the default web browser was good imo. Just make it a simple dropdown of "default web browser".

Microsoft edge is the new final boss of windows

I've always thought why you cant uninstall Edge, its because if theres no browser, you cant access the internet (at least that mutch)

I absolutely need that for when I get my mom a Win 11 laptop in the next few days.

Any side effects for the removal of Microsoft Edge? Does it cause system instability?

Simple , just stick to Windows 10 for now , and remove all the bloatware from the operating system with revo uninstaller or similar app. It even uninstalls the haunted microsoft edge.

edge after uninstalling him: I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now

Would you recommend Revo Installer instead of Uninstall Tool?

Is like you remove web engine on android os. Can you remove it? I just wondering why so much complain to microsoft, but do nothing to google or apple. Is kind of stupid.

it makes sense to have a browser as a system app, imagine if a novice user accidently uninstalled edge before having another browser installed, or if their other browser unexpectedly stopped working?

Let's try to use "windows admin center" app! It's able to remove UWP apps which can't be removed from settings app. It's official MS tool for managing Windows remotely. Maybe it can remove Edge too.

But when you uninstalled Edge, how do widgets work? Are they not working anymore or do they try to open bing on the default browser (or something else)?

Could someone indicate me a good uninstall tool? I need to remove something but even tweaking the registry i can't uninstall it