But if you are someone that isn’t residing in the EU, well you do not have the freedom to remove or uninstall Microsoft Edge from your Windows PC. But, there is always a workaround to always get things sorted out. If you are interested in learning how to uninstall Microsoft Edge from your Windows PC, you have come to the right place.
How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge on Your Windows PC
While Microsoft Edge might still seem like the dreadful terrine Internet Explorer, for a lot of people the new Microsoft Edge web browser is simply a very good browser based on Chromium and at times is also better than Google Chrome. But, if you don’t like this web browser or you find yourself never using the web browser, you can uninstall it right away. Here is what you need to uninstall Microsoft Edge from your Windows PC. Prerequisites
Windows 10/11 PC with the latest update installed ViveTool from GitHub Microsoft Edge web browser
Download the ViveToool
The ViveTool is one of the most useful tools for those who like to tinker around with the operating system and either enable or disable certain features on their Windows PC. Follow these steps to download ViveTool.
Launch your favorite web browser on your PC and visit this GitHub link. Make sure to click on the ViveTool zip folder to download it to your Windows PC. Once the download completes, make sure to unzip the contents and place these contents in a folder location that you can easily think of.
Run The Vivetool Command
In this process, you need to run a command that will make the Vivetool enable a particular feature. Here are the steps.
Uninstalling Microsoft Edge
Now that you have gone through all of the steps to prepare your system to uninstall the Microsoft Edge web browser., you need to follow these steps to complete the uninstallation process on your Windows PC. Closing Thoughts This concludes the guide on how you, the user can uninstall Microsoft Edge from your PC if you do not reside in the EU region. Since this is a very lengthy process, not everyone would be comfortable with following these steps to uninstall pre-installed web browsers. So we hope that Microsoft will allow users around the world to uninstall Microsoft Edge from their PCs. However, that might not likely be the case since Microsoft wants to ensure that people make use of Microsoft Edge to use its AI tools and other features that work well with Windows 11. What are your thoughts about having to use Edge versus getting the option to uninstall Edge? Also, do you use Edge over Google Chrome and other browsers? What is your experience like? Share them below.
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