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The old Edge legacy browser cannot be uninstalled but the shortcut can be deleted manually from the desktop. It worked for me.
Unable to remove the default MS Edge desktop shortcut
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Lorin Davis
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Hi,
Currently our default browser is IE 11 and Windows 10 version used is 1909. As MS Edge is an in-built application, we are unable to remove the MS Edge desktop shortcut. Tried adding the following registry but no luck, the desktop shortcut still exists.
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v "DisableEdgeDesktopShortcutCreation" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
Please help if there is a way to remove MS Edge desktop shortcut from all machines.
Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge development
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Anonymous2021-01-27T06:49:49.72+00:00 @Lorin Davis ,
As you said built-in Edge application, I am assuming that you are talking about the Edge legacy browser(Please correct me if you are using the Edge Chromium browser).Your registry seems correct to me. However, it can be possible that some issues occurred on your side.
As an alternative, you can try to remove that registry and again try to create it using the Powershell script below.
$registrypath = "HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer"
$name = "DisableEdgeDesktopShortcutCreation"
$value = "1"
New-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath -Name $name -Value $value -PropertyType DWORD -Force | Out-NullYou can try to run this script as an administrator and see if it fixes the issue.
If possible after applying this registry, try to login to the newly created user profile and check whether it has the Edge shortcut or not.
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Lorin Davis 21 Reputation points
2021-01-28T03:24:47.143+00:00 Hi,
Yes it is the Edge legacy browser but not the Edge Chromium browser. I have tried running this script as well but the shortcut still exists for the new user profile also.
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Lorin Davis 21 Reputation points
2021-01-28T03:35:09.443+00:00 Sorry I tried once again with your script. The registry created successfully. Logged off and logged in as a different user, there was no Edge desktop shortcut on the new user profile. Whereas if I log back in I can see the Edge desktop shortcut still exists in my user profile.
So does the script remove for other user profiles only ?
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Anonymous
2021-01-29T08:28:40.17+00:00 @Lorin Davis ,
It looks like this registry can prevent creating Edge shortcuts but it will not remove/delete the already existing edge shortcuts.
For existing shortcuts, you can remove/ delete manually. -
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C S 1 Reputation point2021-09-01T18:33:51.873+00:00 This doesn't work
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