How to Enable or Disable Shopping in Microsoft Edge Chromium


Microsoft has adopted the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility. This new Microsoft Edge runs on the same Chromium web engine as the Google Chrome browser, offering you best in class web compatibility and performance.

The new Chromium based Microsoft Edge is supported on all versions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server (2016 and above), Windows Server (2008 R2 to 2012 R2), and macOS.

Microsoft has added a new Shopping in Microsoft Edge feature in Microsoft Edge that will automatically find you the best prices and coupons from across the web as you shop.

See also:

• New shopping features for Microsoft Edge and Bing
• Shop and save when you browse with Microsoft Edge
• Microsoft Edge is the best browser for shopping this holiday

This tutorial will show you how to to turn on or off the Shopping in Microsoft Edge feature in the Chromium based Microsoft Edge.

Contents

• Option One: Turn On or Off Shopping in Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Edge Settings
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Shopping in Microsoft Edge for All Users using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Shopping in Microsoft Edge

OPTION ONE

Turn On or Off Shopping in Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Edge Settings

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Click/tap on the Settings and more (Alt+F) button (3 dots), and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Privacy, search, and services on the left side, and turn On (default) or Off Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge for what you want under Services on the right side. (see screenshot below)

If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Microsoft Edge window until you do.

4 You can now close the Settings tab if you like.

OPTION TWO

Enable or Disable Shopping in Microsoft Edge for All Users using a REG file

You must be sign in as an administrator to do this option.

This option uses the EdgeShoppingAssistantEnabled policy to enable or disable letting users compare the prices of a product they are looking at, get coupons from the website they're on, or auto-apply coupons during checkout. If you enable or don't configure this policy, shopping features such as price comparison and coupons will be automatically applied for retail domains. Coupons for the current retailer and prices from other retailers will be fetched from a server. If you disable this policy shopping features such as price comparison and coupons will not be automatically found for retail domains.

The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

EdgeShoppingAssistantEnabled DWORD

(delete) = Default
0 = Always disabled
1 = Always enabled

1 Do step 2 (enable), step 3 (disable), or step 4 (default) below for what you would like to do.

2 To Force Enable Shopping in Microsoft Edge for All Users

This step will force the Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge setting in Option One to always be turned on without users being able to change this setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Force_enable_Shopping_in_Microsoft_Edge.reg

Download

3 To Force Disable Shopping in Microsoft Edge for All Users

This step will force the Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge setting in Option One to always be turned off without users being able to change this setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Force_disable_Shopping_in_Microsoft_Edge.reg

Download

4 Undo Force Enable or Disable Shopping in Microsoft Edge for All Users

This is the default setting.

This step will allow users to use Option One to turned on and off the Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge setting in Microsoft Edge.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.

Default_user_choice_Shopping_in_Microsoft_Edge.reg

Download

5 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 If Microsoft Edge is currently open, then close and reopen Microsoft Edge to apply.

9 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn Brink