Microsoft Edge Cache Database - please make it stop!

Just installed Windows 10. Microsoft Edge stinks, so I continue using Chrome, using IE11 for a backup.

I run CCleaner regularly, usually more than once a day. Disregarding the notion of whether I ought to be running it that often, I write to complain of the message I get (see screen grab attached) that the Microsoft Edge Cache Database must be closed for CCleaner to run.

Since I'm not even using Edge, I am left to wonder why its cache database is running. I would like to disable the stupid thing, but haven't found a way, as yet. I'm perfectly comfortable making changes in group policy, the registry, etc., as may be necessary to accomplish my goal.

Your perspectives and observations will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

DennisHallack

If you tell it Yes it should clean that cache and unless you use Edge it should not show again. Also on the left just uncheck everything under Edge.

Jim

Have you tried clicking the "do not show this message again" link? And unchecking all the Edge checkboxes? If you don't use edge, you don't have to clean it.

Good suggestions, and thank you.

At first, it appeared that Edge still cached files in the cache database, even when not used. I tried using IE11 (not Edge) and it still appeared that Edge would have cached some files.

Now, trying your suggestion, I do not see where Edge has cached anything. I'm going to keep watching and try a few more times to see if it pops up again.

Thanks!

So, the two attachments show what happened just now.

Didn't use, open, or even think of Edge. I did, however, use IE11. Yet, CCleaner (Capture2) says its cache database is up and running and must be closed. So, I let CCleaner close it and ran the cleaner. As you can see in Capture3, there weren't any Edge files cleaned.

Mystery.

My Edge started loading and navigating really slow today. CCleaner says that the Edge cache is a whopping 1.3 Billion bytes and over 6,000 cookies are being stored. Since Edge's brain isn't using common sense, is there a way to reduce the size of Edge Temp Files, like we can do with I.E. and every other browser?