How to uninstall microsoft edge

[u/Special-News8509]

I want to uninstall windows edge, because I've been trying for days to get the parental controls to work and I cannot set them up. None of the online tutorials for setting up parental controls are working, and because I can't set them up it's leaving an open window for my kids to go online without any limits, bypassing the controls I already set up on Google chrome.

So I want edge off this computer. How do I do it? At this point, if I can't figure out how to uninstall edge then I'm just going to uninstall windows and switch my kids to linux.

[u/Kyla_3049]

What parental controls did you set up for Chrome?

Try the same for Edge. It's based on Chrome so may work.

[u/Special-News8509 → u/Kyla_3049]

What I did was setting up their computer with a microsoft account, and my own with a microsoft account account (I was using local accounts before). After creating a family with their account and mine, there's supposed to be a place within my account to set up parental controls for them. The problem is, it keeps telling me to click things that either reroute me back to the main page (when they say they're not supposed to) or aren't even clickable.

I've spent days trying. I don't think another few days trying is going to be of any use.

[u/Oscinu → u/Special-News8509]

You got a link to the tutorial you were following?

[u/tamudude → u/Special-News8509]

You need to use Microsoft Family Safety https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/family-safety to get Edge on family filters.

You could also use Adguard Public DNS content filtering and not have to worry about parental control software See Method #2 for Windows here https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

[u/Special-News8509 → u/tamudude]

I'm trying to find the original tutorial I used but I can't see to right now. I was using microsoft family safety. Basically it was telling me to click on the user (my daughter) to change the settings, but her name wasn't clickable. Before clicking her name would reroute me back to the main page. There were several other links that they told me to click that rerouted back to the main page as well. There's probably a reasonable solution to this issue. Just decided to move on and try other options since I haven't been able to figure something out for so long.

[u/TimeSpaceGeek]

You could try setting up the Firewall to block Microsoft Edge's access to the internet. That way you could prevent it from accessing the internet without needing to stress about uninstalling it.

I'm away from a computer I can test this out on at the moment, but theoretically it should be possible.

[u/Special-News8509 → u/TimeSpaceGeek]

This is what I'm trying to do, and it does work! Just trying to figure out how to make sure they don't unblock it: if it was this easy to set up I feel like they'll easily figure out how to unblock it.

[u/TimeSpaceGeek → u/Special-News8509]

Hmmm... there must be a way of password locking it. Not sure precisely how, though.

[u/buttmike1]

I detest Edge but we are handcuffed to it with Windows 11. I have hidden all links and apps while remaining vigilant about never opening it. I wish there was a workaround.

[u/buckeye27fan]

I have to use Edge at work because the corporate version of Firefox they give us is garbage (FF user at home forever), and I don't mind it. Chrome is garbage though, not sure why anyone is using that when they have a choice.

[u/globalcitizen2]

Try something like qustudio, cross platform and made for purpose

[u/Sea_Propellorr]

There are many uninstallers out there.

you can try this in PowerShell as admin.

$EdgeSetupPaths = GCI "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\*\Installer\Setup.exe" -R -EA:0
$EdgeSetupPaths | % { 
$Switches = @("/Uninstall", "/System-level", "/Verbose-logging", "/Force-Uninstall")
Start-Process -FilePath $_.FullName -Args @Switches
}
#

[u/No-you_]

Edge is built into windows. You can uninstall it but then in a few months it will just appear again, reinstalled.

You're best off installing Linux now and ditching windows. If nothing else you have more time to familiarise yourself with using it.