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Cannot Open A Specific URL In Microsoft Edge

Anonymous
2024-08-07T07:21:26+00:00

On opening the Microsoft Edge browser from Windows Start button, I want to always open a webpage by default (for example, "https://localhost/service").

Below are the system details on which I am trying the above mentioned scenario:

Windows Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.3930)

Microsoft Edge Version: 126.0.2592.81 (Official build) (64-bit)

As per the following link, there are two registries namely, RestoreOnStartup and RestoreOnStartupURLs with which this behaviour can be achieved:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/52649/microsoft-edge-startup-page-registry

We tried this solution and it did not work and edge:\policy says "This policy is blocked- its value will be ignored".

After carefully, going through https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies , I could see the below information for RestoreOnStartup as well as RestoreOnStartupURLs:

This policy is only available on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, joined to Microsoft Azure Active Directory, or instances that enrolled for device management. On macOS, this policy is only available on instances that are managed via MDM or joined to a domain via MCX.

This means we cannot apply this edge policy to stand-alone systems.

As per our project requirement, it has to be done via registry or group policy settings.

Please let me know if this is an expected behavior which cannot be changed or is there any safe way by which our requirement can be fulfilled.

Thank you in advance.

Microsoft Edge | Open the browser | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-08T13:00:13+00:00

    Hi Tommy,

    Please let me know if I can open a specific page when I launch Edge, using registry setting or via group policy setting.

    Thanks & Regards,

    Anjali Darokar

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-08T09:12:16+00:00

    Hi, Anjali Darokar

    Welcome to the Microsoft community.

    For individual users, if you want to open a specific page when you launch Edge, you can set this preference here. However, this setting won’t apply when you open a second window, as Edge considers it opening a new window rather than launching Edge. If you want each new window to open a specific website, this feature is currently unavailable. Please use Alt+Shift+I to provide feedback on this issue.

    edge://settings/startHomeNTP

    Best regards

    Tommy Jin | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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