
If you are running the Microsoft Edge legacy, please click here to learn How to Disable Preloading Microsoft Edge at Startup.

What is going on here? That's because Edge chromium has a feature that it can automatically run in the background when Windows startup and this article will tell us how to disable this feature. Would you like to close it? Otherwise, caches and cookies can't be cleaned." And, customers say that they are not running the Microsoft Edge. Microsoft now has Edge set to hide its processes from the user.Recently, we have received much feedback from customers that when using Wise Care 365 (or Wise Disk Cleaner) to clean up, a prompt says "MS Edge is running. It only stops when you open Task Manager. They get deleted - because now Edge has stopped running.Įdge runs in the background all the time. tmp files that Edge won't let you delete. Open Task Manager again, while keeping an eye on those. You'll get a dialogue box telling you that some of them can't be deleted. Now CTRL+A to select the temp files, and try to delete them. Press Windows key + R, type %temp%, and hit enter.

Here's a fun thing for you to try, if you get a minute:įirst, make sure (to the best of your ability, including killing all its processes and services that you can find) that Microsoft Edge isn't running. Only now, they've gotten even slimier about it. Thing is, though: they're still doing it. That's what they got smacked down for doing back in the '90s/at the turn of the millennium.

Microsoft has baked it into the foundation of the OS in such a way that you're using it whether you want to or not. It's not that it shouldn't run as a browser when another browser is the user selection the point is that it's not just a browser. Notepad isn't embedded into the bones of the OS nor does it consume system resources when it shouldn't be running at all.
