Windows 10 Users Give Up on Edge

f14tomcat said:

You check the temp of your GPU?

Hope you got a lot of mem?

'Mem' and stuff's okay, I just can't kill this shi....... stuff!

f14tomcat said:

Try resetting Edge. I hear that's real easy!

Forget it! I'll just 'kill' Edge altogether!

If you're interested...



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Edwin said:

'Mem' and stuff's okay, I just can't kill this shi....... stuff!

Here's what I would do:
If you need to shut down Edge (You do!), go to the details tab in Task Manager, right click the Microsoft Edge.exe line and select End Process tree to shut Edge down.

You may wish to create a restore point now, just in case...
In File Explorer, navigate to:

\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Packages\

right click on Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe folder and select delete.

I have had no problems with permissions, but if there are on your setup, you may need to take ownership etc.

Now Edge will not open - problem solved :) - but if you ever want to use Edge again it needs to be reinstalled.

click and type pow - it should find Windows Powershell - right click and select Run as administrator from the menu.
copy the text from the codebox below, go to the Powershell console, and right click to paste the code and press enter

Code:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}

you should see this when the operation has completed:


Edge is ready to use in a nice new factory fresh state, on the Welcome to Edge - Get started page, but you may prefer a reboot first.

One of the nice competent Powershell users (unlike me) here may be kind enough to to script this Edge reset and reinstall to a single script for your convenience.

I didn't even try Edge due to the "incredible moving window" bug. Open a small non-maximized Edge window. Close it. Open a new window. It doesn't open in the same place. Small thing? Maybe - but what a obnoxious and oh so obvious bug for MS to have let through.

I'm still trying to found out where in the OS Edge stores cookies. There are places in the 'Edge' folder in 'packages' but I can delete these and Edge still retains the cookies and sites still open correctly.

I'm looking for an easy way to export a file with initial cookies and site preferences set (for around 40 sites) that will then allow me to do a full browser clean at some point, and just allow these exported settings to be imported back in (as you can in IE). No luck so far, and I've spent quite some time looking.