It's hard enough to remove Microsoft Edge on its own, but this app goes beyond just setting a new default browser.
It’s not a slight against Microsoft — I just don’t particularly care for the Edge browser compared to some of the other best browsers out there. But Edge is different because Microsoft has tried — and mostly failed — to court its massive Windows user base, with some unsavory tactics, including making it nearly impossible to set a different default browser to massive, screen-overtaking popups when searching for the Chrome installer.
There are some ways to uninstall Edge with the options in Windows — check out the link above — but they involve a few registry edits, a little PowerShell, and some upkeep to make sure Edge doesn’t reinstall itself with Windows updates or updates to your other browser. If you don’t want to do all of it manually, you can download the Edge Removal batch file from AveYo on GitHub, which will go through the process for you.
That’s important because, even if you change your default browser in Windows, these additional features will still use Bing and open in Edge. I’m sure I’m far from the only one who’s opened something in Edge through Windows and felt like a fish out of water when half a dozen pop-ups asking me to import my browser settings took over my screen.
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