On 03/08/2025 12:33, Scott wrote:

I'm irritated today. Is there a way of stopping Edge gatecrashing my
computer every time I switch it on? I have set Google Chrome as my
default browser, yet Edge continues to appear.

Gatecrashing. Continues to appear - how?

Every time there's an update to Windows (about once a month) it offers
to make Edge the default browser. I haven't noticed Edge being intrusive
apart from that.

Did you sort Chrome out yet? Maybe, the Edge problemo is linked to that?
Seems quite likely, really.

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On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 12:38:41 +0100, GB <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On 03/08/2025 12:33, Scott wrote:

I'm irritated today. Is there a way of stopping Edge gatecrashing my
computer every time I switch it on? I have set Google Chrome as my
default browser, yet Edge continues to appear.

Gatecrashing. Continues to appear - how?

Every time there's an update to Windows (about once a month) it offers
to make Edge the default browser. I haven't noticed Edge being intrusive >apart from that.

Did you sort Chrome out yet? Maybe, the Edge problemo is linked to that? >Seems quite likely, really.

I had not made this connection. Maybe I am confusing Edge with Bing.
When I start up my PC I get a message saying 'Microsoft Bing.
Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies and similar
technologies .... etc'. I reject this. The next page to appear is 'https://www.bing.com/... ' . How do I stop all this nonsense and get
direct to the default browser (Google Chrome)?

I thought the Chrome problem was sorted, until today when I received
another profile error message. Do you think that not finding a valid
profile for Google results in a default to Bing?

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I'm irritated today. Is there a way of stopping Edge gatecrashing my
computer every time I switch it on? I have set Google Chrome as my
default browser, yet Edge continues to appear.

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On Sun, 8/3/2025 7:33 AM, Scott wrote:

I'm irritated today. Is there a way of stopping Edge gatecrashing my
computer every time I switch it on? I have set Google Chrome as my
default browser, yet Edge continues to appear.

[Picture] Windows 11 Home and assorted ticky boxes

https://i.postimg.cc/kGC560zV/Notifications-W11.gif

You have to turn those off in a specific order, to
make the panel look as spartan as possible.

That's to try to stop "advertising notifications" from appearing.

It hasn't changed much, in terms of the need to deceive
people into not turning stuff off. The three tick boxes
at the bottom still matter :-)

[Picture]

https://i.postimg.cc/mgTBZT63/Notifications-W11-2025.gif

Microsoft Edge is updated practically every time you turn
on the machine. There is a MSEdge instance and a WebView2
interpreter instance. There could be four copies of MSEdge
stored on the drive. MSEdge can be a "startup item".
But the advertising notification you are seeing, would be
part of advertising and not a part of the MSEdge update
package as such. Similar to how the Windows Backup keeps
running, and the "remind me in three days" one keeps
running. All part of advertising.

Nothing prevents a Microsoft marketing package from
ignoring the controls.

Paul

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Scott wrote:

Is there a way of stopping Edge gatecrashing my computer every time
I switch it on?

Make sure you don't click on anything other than empty space on the lock screen, if you hit any of those rectangles that light-up as you wave the
mouse around, then Edge will activate.

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Have you tried opening task manager, selecting 'startup apps' and
disabling Edge? Worked for me.
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TOJ

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