You’ve gotta find and manually take ownership of all its files then delete them all. You also have to remove it’s updater service first (the same way) or it’ll re-install itself immediately.
Even then, it’ll re-install with system updates.
The only reason it breaks anything is several system services like the general help dialog and news+weather are permanently hard-coded to ignore the default browser setting and use Edge exclusively. There’s no good reason for this.
The day windows takes away my administrator power is the day I switch to Linux
Go uninstall Edge and get back to me.
You lost your admin privileges years ago.
You can uninstall it, it just breaks some things. Internet explorer was worse
Not through any of the conventional means.
You’ve gotta find and manually take ownership of all its files then delete them all. You also have to remove it’s updater service first (the same way) or it’ll re-install itself immediately.
Even then, it’ll re-install with system updates.
The only reason it breaks anything is several system services like the general help dialog and news+weather are permanently hard-coded to ignore the default browser setting and use Edge exclusively. There’s no good reason for this.
Yeah, it is rediculous that they do that and I’m surprised they haven’t faced another antitrust suit for it.