How to Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with in Windows 10
Microsoft Edge is a new web browser that is available across the Windows 10 device family. It is designed for Windows 10 to be faster, safer, and compatible with the modern Web.
When you open a new tab by clicking or tapping on the New tab button + or by pressing the Ctrl+T keys in Microsoft Edge, the new tab opens with top sites by default.
This tutorial will show you how to open new tabs with top sites and suggested content, top sites, or a blank page in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10.
- Option One: To Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with in Microsoft Edge Settings
- Option Two: To Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with from "New tab" Page
- Option Three: To Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with using a REG file
EXAMPLE: New tab in Microsoft Edge
1. Open the Microsoft Edge app.
2. Click/tap on the Settings and more (Alt+X) button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)
3. Click/tap on General on the left side, and select "Top sites" and suggested content, Top sites, or A blank page for what you want in the Open new tabs with drop down menu on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Top sites is the default setting.
1. While you have the New tab page (Ctrl+T) open in Microsoft Edge, click/tap on the Customize icon. (see screenshot below)
2. Select the settings you want to customize your "New tab" page with, and click/tap on Save to apply. (see screenshot below)
Note
The Information cards settings will only be available if you have selected Top sites and my feed in "Page display settings". The Information cards settings will also be applied to your Start page.
You can click/tap on the Reset to default settings link to Reset these "New tab" page settings back to default.
Code:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\ServiceUI
NewTabPageDisplayOption DWORD
0 = top sites and suggested content
1 = top sites
2 = blank page
1. Do step 2, step 3, or step 4 below for what you would like to do.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.
Edge_Open_new_tabs_with_Top_sites_and_suggested_content.reg
Download
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.
Edge_Open_new_tabs_with_Top_sites.reg
Download
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 5 below.
Edge_Open_new_tabs_with_Blank_page.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
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Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with
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New #3
Shawn, thank you again for a very good tutorial.
I wish you had a solution to set every new tab to my a custom page (a personal html page with my "most visited/useful sites", but I guess you're a Windows expert and not the product manager of MS Edge
I'm currently running Win 10 Pro x64 and Edge 25.10586.0.0 and every time I clear the Edge data with CCleaner and subsequently re-open Edge, the setting is back to "Top sites and suggested content" and of course the reg entry NewTabPageDisplayOption=0.
After cleanup and before reopening Edge, if I open the registry and check the reg entry, it’s still 1 or 2 (whatever I had set it before running CCleaner).
It is worth noting that I run CCleaner with all Microsoft Edge options set. I noticed, by disabling all CCleaner Edge settings and enabling them one-be-one, that the “Cookies” setting of CCleaner is the one to blame for this behavior.
It seems that after Cookies cleanup, when Edge reopens, it checks for something, doesn’t find it and resets the NewTabPageDisplayOption to 0.
Dimitri
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New #4
I'm glad it could help Dimitri, and thank you for posting your findings about CCleaner for this setting. :)
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New #5
I'm trying to figure out, if it's an Edge or CCleaner problem. I have posted it as a bug in Piriform too and I was hoping that you had some idea from the Edge side. Apparently not.
Isee if I can figure it out and I'll post back the result, to help somebody else if needed.
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New #6
It's gotta be something that CCleaner is doing since it only happens when you use it with all the MS Edge settings checked.
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New #7
That's what I thought too.
The only reason I bothered you, was if you had heard it before and had an idea.
Thanx again for your time. :)
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New #8
It's never a bother. This is the first I've heard about this, so hopefully Piriform will get back with you to get it sorted in the next release of CCleaner.
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New #9
It's a Microsoft Edge problem. If you clear 'Cookies and saved website data' from within Edge itself (without CCleaner even installed), then it will also reset the new tab page back to 'Top sites and suggested content' every time. When they introduce 'Delete Browsing History on Exit' (a feature that should have been in Edge from day 1), then it will become even more apparent.
As you mentioned, it should be possible for people set the new tab page to open with the page that they set as the Microsoft Edge Startup Page. But unfortunately you can't.
I'd send Microsoft feedback because I think Microsoft really need to re-evaluate Edge. Things like this and issues like mentioned in Post No.2 above about not being able to 'Always switch to new tabs when they are created' shouldn't be happening in a well thought out browser, let alone still be like it a year later. I'm not entirely sure it will help though. Microsoft say to give them feedback, but these issues were reported to them a long time ago and are still being ignored today.
Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with
How to Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with in Windows 10Published by Shawn BrinkCategory: Browsers & Email
06 Oct 2018
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