Open ‘Windows Explorer’ and paste the following path in the address bar and press enter to go to Edge’s installation folder. If you hadn’t removed the old Edge, the Chromium Edge will uninstall and roll back to the old Edge. If you had removed, the old Edge prior to the Chromium Edge update, this method will remove Edge from your PC entirely. In this method, with the help of Command Prompt, you can remove the Chromium-based Edge browser which is the upgraded version of the old Edge.

Remove Microsoft Edge using Command-prompt The command will run and remove Edge from your PC. Now type remove-appxpackage and paste the ‘PackageFullName’ value you copied in the PowerShell and press enter. Find ‘PackageFullName’ and copy everything opposite to it (as highlighted in the image). You will see complete details of Microsoft Edge. Copy/Paste or type the following command in the PowerShell and press enter. Now that you have PowerShell running as an administrator. Right-click on it and click on ‘Run as administrator’ from the options.Īlternatively, you can right-click on the ‘Start’ button and click on ‘Windows PowerShell (Admin)’ from the available options. You will find ‘Windows PowerShell’ in the search results. Top open Powershell, click on the ‘Start’ button, and type Powershell. While Powershell is not the friendly way to uninstall an application, but this is the only method that works for Microsoft Edge.

You can uninstall it through PowerShell or Command Prompt. You cannot uninstall it in the regular way you uninstall other applications. Since Edge is a product of Microsoft, they embedded it in Windows 10 and made it difficult to get rid of it. There is still a room for improvements compared to Google Chrome or Firefox.

Microsoft Edge has come a long way from being mediocre browser to a good one.

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