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What if you've removed Edge from your system?
by causi 3y ago
What if you've removed Edge from your system?
- jabroni_salad 3y agoyou might find that it mysteriously reappears
- jeltz 3y agoSource? You may very well be correct but I would like to see a source for such a claim.
- netsharc 3y agoWindows has had a mechanism called Windows Resource Protection[1] for a long while now, if you delete notepad.exe (I guess nowadays that file isn't even deletable), after a few seconds it will reappear again. If you delete edge.exe (or whatever it's called) or replace it with a copy of, let's say firefox.exe, the WRP will see the file has been removed/modified and restore it, because somewhere inside C:\Windows there's a backup copy of the files.. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Resource_Protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Resource_Protection, previously Windows File Protection, introduced in Windows 2000.
- timbit42 3y agoWhat if I tell my A/V it is malware to keep it from being reinstalled?
- monsieurgaufre 3y agoI was able with winget in the past. Dont know if it is still possible.
- stranded22 3y agoI didn’t think it could be easily removed (yes - I appreciate the audience here) - and if removed, it is so ingrained into the OS I expect the problems it’ll cause would be incredibly frustrating…
- pierat 3y agoMicrosoft's cramware is always "inexorably integrated at the deepest of levels", all the way back to Windows95 when they shoveled IE in OSR2 And it's always a 100% complete lie, and abusing their monopoly position.
- recursive 3y agoIt's not a lie that mshtml.dll was the IE (trident) renderer. And it's not a lie that it was a dependency for a number of OS features.
- hospitalJail 3y agoHaha nice try. Ready for a 15 minute long process that will restore itself in the future, not to mention trusting some random website for a guide.