Disabling Microsoft Edge?
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Anyone out there figured out a good way to completely disable running Edge? Server Side?
A lot my calls since I've upgraded all staff to Windows 10 are people who are like "The internet site is not working, it says I need to download Java" . 100% of the time it's because they aren't using Internet Explorer and are instead using Edge because they look the same to the laymen.
I've decided to just disable it altogether with a simple GPO. But as you might have guessed if you've already been down this road, it's not going as planned. In short, it doesn't work at all.
I've already set Default Apps by exporting from a sample machine and saving as config for GPO, but if the damn thing is in their Taskbar, they want to click it. It's looking like I'm going to have to export a taskbar config, but I'm reading that takes away the ability for the end user to change later. I dunno.
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Isn't edge chromium based now? I'd be pushing that over IE for use.
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@IRJ Still in beta I thought.
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Create a login script to rename "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" to C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe_remove" that way you can locate it again if you want to change it in the future.
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@wirestyle22 Hey that sounds like it would work. I'm gonna give it a try now.
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@G-I-Jones said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
@wirestyle22 Hey that sounds like it would work. I'm gonna give it a try now.
The good part of it being a login script is if an update changes it back to its normal name it will just apply the change again.
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It sounds like you're trying to solve a managerial/training problem with a technical solution. That won't ever end well.
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@IRJ said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
Isn't edge chromium based now? I'd be pushing that over IE for use.
Very soon.
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@batman He probably works in a place like mine. The real solution is to get another job
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@batman said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
" It sounds like you're trying to solve a managerial/training problem with a technical solution."
Most of our users are over 45 and don't know what a Windows key is or where to find it on their keyboard or where to type a url. Some don't even know where to put the CD at, or they put them in upside down. I honestly thought this was the standard.
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@wirestyle22 said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
Create a login script to rename "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" to C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe_remove" that way you can locate it again if you want to change it in the future.
Does this part
_8wekyb3d8bbweof the filename ever changes after a version/build of Windows 10 update? -
@G-I-Jones said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
@batman said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
" It sounds like you're trying to solve a managerial/training problem with a technical solution."
Most of our users are over 45 and don't know what a Windows key is or where to find it on their keyboard or where to type a url. Some don't even know where to put the CD at, or they put them in upside down. I honestly thought this was the standard.
You still use CDs? bwahahahahahaha
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@wrx7m We actually have to because we have government computers that won't allow you to plug in USB's .
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@black3dynamite said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
@wirestyle22 said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
Create a login script to rename "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" to C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe_remove" that way you can locate it again if you want to change it in the future.
Does this part
_8wekyb3d8bbweof the filename ever changes after a version/build of Windows 10 update?Initial google-fu said yes when I was looking this up. Real answer is I don't know
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Simple fix is to replace Edge icon with IE icon and make IE default.
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If anyone is wondering I made a batch file with:
RENAME C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe_removeand it worked like a charm.
Of note: if you're just trying to run it, you'll need to run as admin or it'll prompt you that you aren't good enough as a person. Running it as a logon script works though. (i.e. gpupdate /force, re-log.)
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For the first time in like 4 years I helped someone guys
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@wirestyle22 said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
For the first time in like 4 years I helped someone guys
https://media.tenor.com/images/21010460ecdb9bfd0a495a4bf9929a4f/tenor.gif
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Now that you got rid of Edge, how are users getting in the internet?
No way in hell they are searching the start menu for IE
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@Dashrender said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:
Now that you got rid of Edge, how are users getting in the internet?
No way in hell they are searching the start menu for IE
We don' need no stinkin internet.
