Force remove microsoft edge regardless of region/country. #64
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- remove more registry keys - fix Test-Path spam and Remove-Item spam with foreach loops - attempt to uninstall edge with winget first then uninstall it forcefully - add credits and update version number to 1.1 - Edge update is now uninstalled forcefully alongside with edge
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v 1.1 it doesn't uninstall edge webview because you can manually uninstall it so automatic script is not really needed for that also edge webview is required for roblox studio to work so its a big adventage for people who play roblox (like me) :) |
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@Raphire please review when you have time to do so thx |
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one more thing if you are wondering how to test if it works correctly and you don't have edge installed then download edge and install it from here or just install ms edge with winget: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download?form=MA13FJ |
unregister ms edge from task scheduler remove ms edge services
- Fixed task names - Removes leftover ms edge shortcut in User Pinned\TaskBar - Force kill all edge processes without prompting user for permission to do so
- Fix PSScriptAnalyzer(PSAvoidCmdletAliases) (swap cd to Set-Location) - Fix PSScriptAnalyzer(PSAvoidAssignmentToAutomaticVariable) (swap $args to $arguments) - This commit makes it more future proof
- remove mode 5 testing
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I have modified an existing script from @AveYo to completely uninstall edge (webview hard locked cant uninstall anymore) |
your script looks way more advanced than mine maybe make seperate pull request for that? |
#66 |
onedrive actually uninstalls without refusing to do that so you don't have to force uninstall it edit: thanks to your pull request i learned about -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue and i'll add this to my pull request too because why not |
- silence task scheduler errors when task doesn't exist
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I will have a look at this soon. Although I'm not sure how I feel about manually removing everything related to edge like this. It can become a pain if anything related to registry or location of stored files changes in the future. |
You can't just only rely on registry to disable windows features (such as recall) because those features waste disk space and deleting them from C drive solves that issue about Microsoft Edge: or finally just wait until microsoft actually allows you to uninstall msedge without refusing to do that (obviously they won't allow you to uninstall their "best browser" just because of this github repo) What i learned is MSedge reinstalls itself by relying on edge update "service" booting on start-up in task scheduler and registry auto start so my pull request targets both microsoft edge and edge update so it doesn't reinstall itself I still can't disagree this script looks pretty messy and it requires constant updating when microsoft moves their browser somewhere else (for example migration from program files x86 to program files you get what i mean) Registry key removal is pretty messy and maybe i'll try fixing that mess |
- remove msedge shortcut from user desktop - remove msedge tasks regardless of randomly generated UUID from task scheduler - silencing task scheduler errors is no longer needed - fix registry mess - check if edge is installed before trying to uninstall it with winget
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keeping this up-to-date so you can merge it without conflicts in the future |
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@loadstring1 I like the way you implemented this, but the method recently mentioned in #38 is a bit cleaner and utilizes the installer to do most of the heavy lifting. I have adapted this method and included some of your tricks aswell here: 91bd5c5 (This is pushed to an experimental branch) P.S. I opted not to remove EdgeCore and EdgeUpdate. Removing EdgeCore seems to break Widgets, and may also break other OS functionality. Removing EdgeUpdate may cause Webview2 to not update anymore at all, which could pose security issues and/or cause certain apps that require Webview2 to not work at all. |
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My script deletes those two because i don't really care about widgets i don't use that feature myself but good catch i didn't notice anything because i don't use widgets at all and for webview2: it doesn't need updates to work inside roblox so that also made me notice nothing (and its the only reason why i didnt delete webview2 its because roblox uses that for prompts such as logging into roblox account in studio) |
Tested and works on my windows 11 home 22h2 it wiped microsoft edge out of my system. I used closed-source programs to help myself with writing this feature.
Please let me know if i should also consider force uninstalling edge webview and edge update because for now this is just edge uninstaller
fixes this issue: 38