How do you disable Microsoft Edge? Who uses it anyways?

I do not know what you mean by "running in the background." If you have evidence of this, then it would be very helpful to let us know about it. However, having multiple browsers on your computer is normal now, and it is not harmful in any way. It would do no good to try to disable or remove Microsoft Edge because Microsoft has direct access to your computer and will just undo whatever you did.

The only reason Microsoft Edge has ever been opened on my computer is on those rare occasions when I find a site that really won't run properly on any other browser. My default is Firefox. Those who refuse to be standards compliant often write their sites for Chrome, so that is my next effort. Only when both Firefox and Chrome have failed do I open up Edge to check the functionality of the site. I have yet to find that I need it.

It would be nice if companies would hire real professionals to create their sites who can actually follow W3C standards, but they keep hiring overpriced amateurs who do not know what they are doing. It is a good thing to keep at least these three browsers on your system because of that. If you actually develop any sites yourself, make sure that you follow W3C guidelines and also check them in all three browsers and any others you can find.

I use it but not all the time. it is still necessary to get into several institutions to whom I owe money. not a bad browser but still a work in progress. far better then the IS series b4 it.

Download "Autoruns" ; this gives control over which programs run when you start your computer.

You can also go to : - Administrative Tools > Services > Remote Registry , and set it to Disabled, along with other horrible security risks which allow remote access. This will probably not work on the crappy Home Edition.

I found a link with instructions on how to disable and remove Edge on Windows. These instructions are for Windows 10. Here is the link.

Link:
https://windowsreport.com/uninstall-edge-windows-10/

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As a web developer since the first days of the web (and a data communications specialist before that all the way back to the days of Xmodem and before), I have got to admit that I don't know what you are talking about. I have all the major browsers on my devices and test all the pages I design on all of them, and although I have not in any way disabled Edge on any of the four computers I have in my home, it is not associated with any of the processes running in the background on any of them. It is present on my computer, but does not run unless I execute it.

I have only used four browsers as my defaults since the WWW first came into being -- Lynx when I only had VT-100 and WY-50 dumb terminals, Mosaic, Netscape, and, almost forever now, Firefox. There was a period back there a decade or so ago when Microsoft actually required Internet Explorer to accomplish basic functions of the user interface, but EU antitrust actions put a stop to that.

But actually, Edge is an excellent and fast browser, and there are some web pages (notably, for a while after their recent redesign, NBC News) that would only display properly on Edge. While Firefox remains my default, I use Edge next most often, followed by Chrome, Opera, Safari and Tor.

There is no reason to disable or remove Edge. It is actually a good and unobtrusive product. It isn't eating clock cycles, it isn't spying on you, and occasionally it proves itself useful even when you have other browsers available.

See if this makes sense. At home we use a well-know little program called CCleaner (pronounced see-kleener). For anyone not familiar with CCleaner it basically searches for all the temporary files that build up in Windows. Often referred to as junk files, these include the internet browser "cache" files from Edge, Chrome and other internet browsers you may have.

On Windows 10 we mainly use Chrome browser. Yet, when we run CCleaner we get a message saying "Microsoft Edge needs to be closed before we can clean out its cache and temp files" or words to that effect. This message appeared even if we hadn't been using Edge at all. I discovered that Edge was set as our Default browser. Changing the Default browser to Chrome resolved the issue. CCleaner stopped telling us to close Edge for cleaning. BUT, there's a Catch 22 here. Each time Windows 10 gets a big update our Default browser gets reset to Edge - arghh! Equally annoying, Windows 10 big updates reset our home networking settings to their default values and that messes up our file and folder sharing, especially sharing music and recorded TV shows from our HTPC (a Windows 8.1 PC with Media Center recording ability) to other computers in the house.

So, try this. Click on Start and type default or default programs. Select from the list of results. On the default programs or apps page scroll to find Browser and check the box for a browser other than Edge, then Save/OK/whatever. I'm also trying to remember if Edge, Cortana, and Bing search are all tied together? Can't remember, but we have all of them disabled as far as possible. Bing search results often don't show the results we want, and Cortana is, well, too intrusive on privacy for me to be happy to use it.

I kinda liked Microsoft Edge to begin with, but it had some glitchy problems on favorite websites so I quickly abandoned it, and only use it now for the occasional page where it displays better than Chrome.

I found Edge to be quick, and compliant with standards, so I'd have still been using it if I weren't a developer needing all the dev tools available in Firefox or Chrome.

Also don't use Chrome if you care about your privacy on any level.

I have a very old computer and a laptop with a partly damaged hard drive. Windows 10 makes my desktop which is 12 or 13 years old an hour to do anything. laptop would not work with Windows anymore. A laptop is only a couple years old. I went with linux operating system. Works great in both computers! Takes a little while to get used to the different terminology. Very fast and uses hardly any of the hard disk.

Don't micromanage your OS or it will become the bane of your existence. Yeah, I occasionally find it MS Edge is open for some reason but it's not snooping on me and I would irreversibly damage my OS if I tried to remove it. Instead just optimize your system and don't pet the sweaty things... or sweat the... you know what I mean.

See if you can purchase the Windows 10 LTSB version.

This is the write up I saw about it:

"LTSB is a licensing option for Windows 10 Enterprise and is available only for customers with a Volume License agreement. Each LTSB release receives standard monthly security and reliability updates for an extended 10-year support period. No new features are added over its servicing lifetime."

Run CCleaner and it tells you it's always running in the background, and most always you have to force-close it. Nefarious? Maybe not, but why is it continuously using background resources even when you don't use it?

I was a professional developer for over 40 years, 20 of which predate WWW and HTML. I've coded for most browsers and dealt with the BS syntax differences. I have I guess 20 years as coder on websites.

I admit I use Edge almost exclusively except for 2-3 sites that expressly did not even allow Edge to load. Said I needed a more current browser. I've not been back to those sites.

I have Edge, IE, Chrome now and that would be my preference. But I really don't care as they all behave the same or should.

I'm a content guy. I don't like gadgets that slow load times.

There will always be those who nit pick browsers and have favorites. People, just get over it. Use what you like. Folks who code to standard and only release well tested code on all browsers won't have bad web sites.

Microsoft Edge works well. I never used Chrome or Firefox because Internet Explorer and then Edge worked well enough to use daily on Windows. I am surprise that people still use Firefox or Chrome.

Well now, Edge is the safest, the fastest and the best. Never be led into Firefox or Chrome. Whoa bad