Does anyone know what updates MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe???

Question

OK, I am at a loss here. I have updated all my computers to the more recent version of Edge, but I have noticed that they are running many different versions of MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe. It seems the most current version of MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe is 1.3.143.51 but I have computers running 1.3.143.45 and some on 1.3.141.63. I have tried renaming this directory - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\ and reinstalling Edge. It recreates the directory, but still does not update to the latest version of 1.3.143.51. Does anyone know how this MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe gets updated? Thanks.

Answer 1

From my understanding MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe updates the browser as well as itself. There are two scheduled tasks under the root of the Task Scheduler library, which are responsible for check regularly for updates

• MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineUA
• MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore

If you run these manually and then go and look in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Log you will see the Edge update process looking for updates for the Browse and the Update engine.

This is what a browser check looks like
[MicrosoftEdgeUpdate:msedgeupdate][15456:2732][CheckForUpdate][app_id {56EB18F8-B008-4CBD-B6D2-8C97FE7E9062}][cdp_name msedge-stable-win-x64][version 90.0.818.46][nextversion ]

This is what an update engine check looks like
[MicrosoftEdgeUpdate:msedgeupdate][15456:2732][CheckForUpdate][app_id {F3C4FE00-EFD5-403B-9569-398A20F1BA4A}][cdp_name msedgeupdate-stable-win-x86][version 1.3.143.57][nextversion ]

The log entries immediately after each of those will tell you whether it found an update and if there was any issues downloading the update.

Answer 2

I would also like to know as we have Windows 10 latest updates along with Edge latest updates but the MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe is not updating on some PC's