Stopping the Edge Shortcut on Update. . . Possibly

@csun

That solution has been hashed not only in this thread but 3 or 4 others as well, even here: Latest Microsoft Edge released for Windows


It hasn't went well for your tip.

There have been updates on all three machines but no icon action.

Brink said:

Anak said:

There have been updates on all three machines but no icon action.

This below is working so far.

Disable Microsoft Edge from creating desktop shortcut in Windows 11 Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum

Updates and still no icon drop.

Thx Shawn! I'll look into that.
It's gotten so quiet with this icon business, makes me wonder if MS stopped adding it or if the event had a kill date.


Anyone else notice a difference?

Wannagofast said:

I have done nothing to stop the shortcut that was added on the last few Edge updates.

I did the update to stable channel today and no shortcut. Perhaps they just stopped.

peace
wanna

We can only hope, Thx wanna!

dalchina said:

Edge updated to 109.0.1518.70 - no desktop shortcut.

However, one was added to the Start menu.

Somewhere in Redmond a Microsoft Edge engineer is laughing his/her socks off at us. This is what Microsoft now considers 'customer service'.

We're no longer 'valued customers', just pawns to be trifled with.

RickC said:

dalchina said:

Edge updated to 109.0.1518.70 - no desktop shortcut.

However, one was added to the Start menu.

Somewhere in Redmond a Microsoft Edge engineer is laughing his/her socks off at us. This is what Microsoft now considers 'customer service'.

We're no longer 'valued customers', just pawns to be trifled with.

No changes no icons including Start menu on either the test sys1, or the control sys's . Sys2 where I left the previous icon did not receive a second one.

RickC:
Yes but isn't it nice to be needed. . . Somehow? . . .

I just bought into and perpetuated the myth, with my new win11 box and monitor. IDK, I believe it won't stop until everything computers goes open source.


“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Usually attributed to Einstein but has many authors


I believe this observational study will be marked solved soon.