How to delete Edge profiles programmatically

Question

Hi,

After creating several new Edge profiles in Windows 11, we need to find a way to delete them at runtime programmatically.

Is there anyway it can be done programmatically such as from command line?

I can see newly created Edge profiles in Windows registry here (image attached):

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Edge\Profiles

I am not sure it is the right way to delete profiles by removing those registry entries.

Our Edge version is:

Version 126.0.2592.68 (Official build) (64-bit)

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi @Zhu, Ligong,

Unfortunately, profiles can't be deleted via registry settings. Removing the listed entries does not delete the profiles.

You can only remove the profile folders at %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data.

Please note if you try to delete the folders while Microsoft Edge is running, you won't be permitted to do that. You need to kill all msedge.exe instances first. A useful command line would be taskkill /f /im msedge.exe.

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