How to uninstall Microsoft Edge as of 2022 on Windows 10?

Thank you for your reply.

The definition of bloatware is not set in stone, and some people might consider something bloatware while others do not. Anything that I am forced to use or to even store on my device against my will, that is privacy concern is bloatware. And Edge fits precisely to that definition. Let us not debate opinions here.

The article that you sent is something that I anyone can find from 3 seconds of googling. I hope you do not interpret this as any form of negative speech towards you, I appreciate that you took your time to reply, it's simply the fact that the information in the article provided does not work on all devices for some reason. My question was more to find out an actual way of deleting it for good that works universally, not to try some ways that may or may not work. For example, the folder that the article tells me to access doesn't even exist.

I hoped that there were a simple uninstall command, much like any single software on this planet should have. In simple terms, I thought it was to be expected to have a command that, in simple terms, would be "uninstall Edge" per se. But apparently not.

I believe Microsoft should put more trust into their users and allow them to run basic modifications on their computers, such as uninstalling the dozens of unneeded applications and services they are installing, including Edge. But this is just a personal opinion.

Thank you for your time, Greg

I disagree that you have the right to force consumers or businesses to use your browser and built it in such a way that they cannot remove it easily, or maybe not at all without issues. This is the same issue Internet Explorer got from Bill Gates way back many years when he was sued for this very problem. Why don't most other companies do this? I am not saying I do not like using Windows 10 Pro, because there really isn't a universal alternative to what most consumers use and need, and maybe that is a whole other conservation for another day. But you should NEVER make it so we cannot uninstall ANYTHING on the computers we purchase. We are the customers, and we own the computers and software, even if it is not open source. The point is, you are LOSING customers by this very method going way back to Internet Explorer and Netscape. Remember?

Allow me to add to this dialogue my genuine disgust with Microsoft and Edge. The propaganda offered initially in response to the licensee's enquiry might be expected; e.g., "over a billion consumers" feel obliged to use the Edge browser. This means that Microsoft, like the rest of internet tech, has access to the personal data of billions of people, and can manipulate their interface with the web so as to exploit, control and PROFIT.

My current outrage stems from a brief experience yesterday, 12 December 2022, when I mistakenly hit a button in Windows Explorer and the festooned face page of Edge popped up (even though NOT the default browser which, in my case is FIREFOX). The bookmarks from Firefox were already installed in the Edge toolbar. And I was forced to look at Microsoft News. I never granted access to Edge to purloin info from Firefox. What other information is Microsoft looking at?

We will be lucky as a nation if our ideologically burdened political system finds time to investigate data surveillance tech in all its corporate iterations and LEGISLATE and REGULATE to control or eliminate its abuses. Microsoft may be a tad more subtle than Elon Musk's new distortion of Twitter, or the egregious activities of Google and Facebook. But one has to start somewhere, no?

Edge's nowadays most important functionality is using it to download another browser. Microsoft had tried to refresh IE and make a modern, usable browser (which in part, they did). I have tried Edge since its inception and it only got better, however I dislike the way it is shoved down our throats (one of the worst examples of this is whenever you try to install a different browser, you are being bombarded with messages that "You are already using the best browser!").

There are several ways to install a browser. Let's say my browser do breaks down and my system is left without it nor Edge. What to do now? I could always install it via command line (actually faster than installing via GUI). Or I could simply load an USB stick with an installer and plug it in. Or, worst case scenario, I could use the dated IE browser that still coexists with Edge for some reason. No browser does not mean no internet access.

As for the other features, first off I don't see why they have to be attached to Edge for any reason. They could just as well work independently. But second of all, I never used any of those features and I would never care to use them. Most of the functionality you mentioned is something I can already access in a browser, I am not keen on using widgets for them. So losing those functions does not really affect me. As for the Microsoft Store, I cannot remember the last time I used it either.

I have indeed found people saying that you can delete the setup.exe, but with the caveat that it will come back. That coming back is something I wanted to circumvent, but I suppose I will have to stop updating the system or write a script to do it for me every major update.

Thank you for your reply

If you uninstalled Edge and your favourite browser stopped working, how would you go about repairing it with no web access?

The same as we did back in the day when the net was in its infancy: get a copy of your favourite browser from another PC, then install it!