what to know
- Remove Edge from Settings > Apps > Installed Apps . But for most people, the uninstall option is gray.
- To enable Edge’s uninstall button, open the Registry Editor and change the NoRemove value from 1 to 0 .
- Another way to remove Microsoft Edge is to use PowerShell commands. Here are two options for doing this.
This article explains how to remove Microsoft Edge from your Windows 11 computer.
Microsoft makes it easy to remove Edge, but only if you first make a small change to the Windows registry. Don't worry, it's easy. If the Edge Uninstall option is grayed out in Settings, follow these steps:
If you are located in an EEA country, most of these steps are unnecessary. If this is you, skip to step 4.
Open the Windows Registry Editor and paste the following into the path at the top of the program. Press Enter to jump to this key:
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallMicrosoft EdgeDouble-click "NoRemove" on the right.
Change the value to 0 and press OK .
You can now uninstall Edge from Settings > Apps > Installed Apps . Press the three dots next to Microsoft Edge and select Uninstall .
We recommend using the method explained above. However, if you want to run commands to perform such advanced functions, you first need to find the Edge installation folder. Here's where to find it and how to run the command to remove Microsoft Edge from Windows 11:
Open File Explorer (press Win + E to do this quickly). Type or paste this into File Explorer's address bar and press Enter :
C:Program Files (x86)MicrosoftEdgeApplication
Open a recently modified folder with a numerical name. For example, 124.0.2478.97 .
Right-click on the installer folder and select Copy as path .
Open Terminal as administrator and launch PowerShell from there. Enter cd and paste the path you copied in the previous step. It should look like this:
cd "C:Program Files (x86)MicrosoftEdgeApplication124.0.2478.97Installer"
Press Enter to run the command, which will change the working directory to this folder.
Copy the command below, then right-click in the black box to paste it into PowerShell.
.setup.exe -uninstall -system-level -verbose-logging -force-uninstall
Press Enter and wait for the command to run. Edge should be removed from your computer.
If the first method doesn't work as expected, you can try another option using different commands.
Open PowerShell via Terminal as described above. Make sure you start it as administrator by right-clicking it in the Start menu and selecting Run as administrator .
Type the following and press Enter to run the command:
get-appxpackage *edge*Find PackageFullName in the data row that appears. Highlight the information to the right of the colon and press Ctrl + C to copy it.
Type remove-appxpackage at the bottom of the PowerShell window and paste the text you copied in the previous step. Here's our example (yours may be slightly different):
remove-appxpackage Microsoft.MicrosoftEdgeDevToolsClient_1000.22621.1.0_neutral_neutral_8wekyb3d8bbwePress Enter . After the command completes, Edge should be removed from your computer.
Best to keep Edge. Not only will Windows try to reinstall it later via Windows Update, but Windows may behave strangely without Edge. A better option is to simply choose a different browser; you can have multiple programs running on your computer at the same time.
There are many browsers to choose from: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera are just a few examples. Once you have installed an alternative to Edge, you can easily change the default browser in Windows 11 from Settings .
If you don't uninstall Edge, you can still delete the Microsoft Edge icon.
To remove it from the taskbar, right-click its icon and select Unpin from taskbar . If it is visible in the Start menu, right-click the Edge icon and select "From Start" to unpin it . If the shortcut is on your desktop, right-click it and select Delete .
