{"id":1801,"date":"2015-10-14T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obieta.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2015-10-14T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:12:27","slug":"how-to-disable-or-uninstall-microsoft-edge-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"How to disable or uninstall Microsoft Edge in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Edge is a &#8220;trusted&#8221; UI App and a core part of the Windows 10 Operating System; it can&#8217;t be removed by conventional means, just like Internet Explorer could not be removed from previous versions of Windows by conventional means. There are a couple workarounds, however:<\/p>\n<p>You can run PowerShell <em>as an administrator<\/em> and run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Get-AppxPackage\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This will show you a list of all installed Apps and Core features for Windows 10. Scroll down until you find the one with the name <strong>Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge<\/strong>. Copy (you can use your mouse to highlight the full name and then press <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd> + <kbd>C<\/kbd> to copy it) or write down the <strong>PackageFullName<\/strong>, which will change depending on the build of Windows 10 you are using. For the RTM version released in July, that is:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_20.10240.16384.0_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe | Remove-AppxPackage\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<pre><code>Get-AppxPackage  *edge* | Remove-AppxPackage\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This should remove the app. Alternatively, you can navigate to the Windows Apps install location:<\/p>\n<pre><code>C:\\Windows\\SystemApps\\\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And right-click the Microsoft Edge folder, <code>Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe<\/code>, and select<strong>Properties<\/strong>, where you can set the folder and all its contents to <strong>Read-Only<\/strong> (make sure the checkbox shows a checkmark, not a square). This will prevent Windows from making changes to the folder.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you can open the folder and rename the Microsoft Edge executables (<code>MicrosoftEdge.exe<\/code> and <code>MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe<\/code>) and\/or delete them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Edge is a &#8220;trusted&#8221; UI App and a core part of the Windows 10 Operating System; it can&#8217;t be removed by conventional means, just like Internet Explorer could not be removed from previous versions of Windows by conventional means. There are a couple workarounds, however: You can run PowerShell as an administrator and run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}