Can I reinstall the Microsoft Edge browser?

[WPCentral Question]

A few days ago I downloaded windows 10, great, but today when I click on the Microsoft edge, nothing happens why

 

[Diddeke Muis]

i have the same problem over here

 

[Tony Clegg]

Fate? There are other web browsers available though. There is also a link within all apps/programs to use Internet Explorer.

 

[Richard Debertin]

Same problem here. It is still there as I can go to search put in a web site and it will open in Edge. but no way to open edge and no way to minimize the window without losing it completely. Can use IE but really wanted to try some new features of Edge.

 

[tarau]

Same here, my Edge browser was open, then I closed it. Now I can't open it any more. If I right click on the shortcut it only shows me the option to unpin it. I have tried to repair any corrupted files and did a cold boot to no avail. If I try a different user, it works just fine.

FIXED:
I solved my problem by going back to an earlier restore point. (on Setting, search for RESTORE).

 

[Vikram Dinesh]

Open task manager and check if it is showing Edge as running. If it is then select Edge and click on End task. This should solve your problem. I faced this problem in one of the earlier preview builds.

 

[gary 222]

I have the same issue. Downloaded windows 10 three days ago. Edge stopped working today. Will open when I log in as a different user so I was able or download firefox that way. I edge is not running when I go to task manager. Also I cannot restore as system did not save a restore point after download, and I did not manually do do either. Went to microsoft site to redownload edge, cannot find that either.

 

[gary 222]

latest problem with edge browser which won't boot is that when I go to reinstall from Microsoft, they are requiring me to have office installed. I am certainly not going to buy office for this mostly web surfing machine in order to reload edge which Microsoft installed as part of the windows 10 upgrade.

 

[Theodore Heston Fernandez]

I had faced similar issues with the edge browser. It disappeared one day. There was no way to manually launch the edge browser. I was finally able to fix it by following the below steps



First we need to delete the corrupt edge folder. The path => C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe




Delete the "Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" Folder




You may not able to delete the folder itself and 2 or 3 files. but it does'nt matter. Select the folder, Hit Delete, Then if it asks for admin privileges, Just hit skip and then ok . Restart the computer.




Then Launch Powershell as administrator and run the following command. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}




Hit enter and once the command is executed, Quit powershell and restart the computer to complete the process.




The edge browser will be back and running in all its glory.


For the not so Techie Guys:
Please find below the link to the site that has step by step instructions to reinstall the edge browser
techtantri.com/how-to-reinstall-microsoft-edge-browser/

 

[Theodore Heston Fernandez]

How to Reinstall Microsoft Edge Browser
I had faced similar issues with the edge browser. It disappeared one day. There was no way to manually launch the edge browser. I was finally able to fix it by following the below steps

First we need to delete the corrupt edge folder. The path => C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Delete the "Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" Folder

You may not able to delete the folder itself and 2 or 3 files. but it does'nt matter. Select the folder, Hit Delete, Then if it asks for admin privileges, Just hit skip and then ok . Restart the computer.

Then Launch Powershell as administrator and run the following command. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}

Hit enter and once the command is executed, Quit powershell and restart the computer to complete the process.

The edge browser will be back and running in all its glory.

For the not so Techie Guys:
There are step by step instructions to reinstall the edge browser at TechTantri (dot) com/ how-to-reinstall-microsoft-edge-browser/

 

[Santhosh Kumar A]

Hello,


I was trying the above mentioned steps the Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe" Folder is more than 10 GB. Before we delete the folder i wanted to make sure if it is supposed to be more than 10 GB ?

 

[Santhosh Kumar A]

Wow !

It worked!

 

[ohchiz]

i tried doing it but got this error message, anyone know why?



edge crashed and disappeared one day and now my windows start button and a lot of search functions throughout windows dont work. i spent several hours with microsoft help desk ppl who said they exahaused all options except resetting my computer, tried to do that and it too errored

 

[ohchiz]

would it also maybe work if i just copied these files from someone else with windows 10 and pasted them in?

 

[rakesh0867]

great job

 

[dtmichaels]

Dear OhChiz,

I came to this forum looking for the same issue as you did. Upon reading some of the posts, a user posted about running a command in PowerShell. Such as yourself, I copied and pasted it as advised. I ended up running unto the same issue as you. When I executed the command, I got the same message. I tried running it several times and had no luck. Until I saw mentioned several times elsewhere that it needs to be run as Administrator. So you need to locate PowerShell and right click on it and you should see an option to ?Run as Administrator?. Once you have done that, then copy and paste the command and it should work. It certainly worked for me. Wishing you the best of luck? :smile: :wink:

Sincerely,

Devin Michaels-Bishop

 

[kei en]

guide me on how to delete coz theres no uninstall or delete option

 

[kei en]

cant find it there