No longer can we uninstall MS edge from Windows11

Bathinda Helper
Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:17:12 +0000
Lessons on Life & Computers

Ways (which no longer work on Win11 (Build 22621.1718)) to forcibly remove MS edge which are mentioned on diff sites.

Run RegEdit and go to this key: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Edge. In there change the value of ‘NoRemove’ from 1 to 0. And then uninstall MS edge from Windows Settings (if you don’t first change this registry entry, ‘Uninstall’ option would remain grayed out in the apps list)

Open Command Prompt (perhaps Power Shell would also do), with admin rights, go to this location (you’d have to give this command Cd "Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\YOUR-MS-EDGE-VERSION-NUMBER\Installer" . E.g.: Cd "Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\113.0.1774.57\Installer").

At the above said location, paste this command in the terminal/command window: .\setup.exe --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging --force-uninstall .
I’ve found that this command no longer works and gives this type of access error: The Setup command may only be used inside a Describe block. (actual error msg is much longer than this line). Sometimes, this didn’t produce any error, but no result also.

Another method is to run this command in Admin Power Shell: get-appxpackage *edge*. And in the almost 6th line of the results, you’d find PackageFullName. Here you’ve to copy its value, and give this command: Remove-appxpackage “PackageFullName”`. E.g.

Remove-appxpackage RMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdgeDevToolsClient_1000.22621.1.0_neutral_neutral_8wekyb3d8bbwe

But this too failed with this sort of error: Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF1, Package was not found.

None of the above worked. And I’ve not been able to uninstall this yet. But as a workaround I’ve just removed MS Edge’s association with any file types, so that it doesn’t open automatically anytime I’m working on something.