How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge Chromium & Revert To Old Microsoft Edge [Tutorial]
3Microsoft has finally unveiled the stable version of Chromium Edge after one year of trials at Edge Insider. With this new project, the company made Edge a native web-browser and it will receive updates independently to that of monthly Windows 10 patches. It includes all the useful features that were tested on its legacy versions like Beta, Dev, or Canary. However, if you don’t want to continue with this, you may choose to uninstall Microsoft Chromium Edge.
Edge Chromium is a decent web browser. I’d even go as far as to say it’s worth swapping over to from Google Chrome, given its improvements with memory usage. However, Microsoft has been incredibly annoying about stuffing Edge Chromium down everyone’s throats, and a recent Windows update locks this browser into your OS even more.
Earlier, uninstalling Microsoft Edge poses security issues as this was a core component of Windows 10 OS. But, as of now, if you don’t like the performance of new Chromium Edge or face any other bugs, you may simply uninstall this web-browser. Let’s explore how to remove this application on Windows 10 PC.
How to Get the Old Microsoft Edge Back.
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Sure, you could just set another app like Firefox or Opera as your default web browser and ignore Edge’s presence (and Windows 10’s incessant notifications to “try the new Edge”), but it’s better to remove Edge Chromium entirely if you never plan to use it.
The thing is, if you try to uninstall the browser from the Apps & Features menu in system settings, the “Uninstall” button next to Edge is now grayed out. If you’re like me, you probably hopped over to the Control Panel to uninstall it via the “Programs and Features” tab...except the update also removed Edge from the list of installed programs, so it can’t be uninstalled that way, either.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung.