![]() ![]() Since Microsoft allowed users to upgrade from Windows 7, Windows 8 to Windows 10 for free when it was launched last year, presumably on older PCs, some users are reporting issues with Windows 10 on older PCs. However, problem arises when you run Windows 10 on PCs that have either shoddy, outdated on PCs with hardware not well equipped enough and compatible with Windows 10 features. I seldom use Edge, but it did work in my normally used account at some point.Windows 10 is a great operating system if you use it on PCs with advanced hardware that is capable enough to handle most of functions. I don’t know how long this issue has actually been present. I guess I must have done something in the latter account that’s interfering with Edge, but I currently have no idea what. The account where Edge works is very close to a “plain vanilla” account whereas the other one is much more customized to my liking. This turns out to be true both before and after the repair reinstall.Īt this point, I have no idea why Edge works in one account and not the other.īefore anybody asks, both accounts have administrator rights. However almost as an accidental side effect of the repair reinstall, I discovered that while Edge doesn’t work in the user account that I normally use it does work in another user account that I seldom use. I even did a repair reinstall of windows which didn’t help. I tried most of the things mentioned above including Repair from Apps in Settings and force uninstall using Revo Uninstaller followed by reinstall. I guess I have a different issue than the one taking up most of this thread though it certainly fits Edge Refuses to Launch after update though I no longer know update of what. If you need to reinstall see Step # 4 of Troubleshooting Tips for Installing and Updating Microsoft Edge.ĭell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v21H2 build 19044.2006 * Firefox v105.0.0 * MS Edge v1.50 * Microsoft Defender v.7-0.3 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.5.14.210. The Microsoft support article What To Do If Microsoft Edge Isn’t Working includes instructions on how to repair MS Edge that might be helpful. 0), although I can’t confirm since the release notes for v1.33 only say “ Fixed various bugs and performance issues“. Microsoft agent Eric-SE posted on 0 in the MS Answers thread Edge Won’t Run After the Update 104=>105 that the problem with MetricsReportingEnabled was fixed in MS Edge v1.33 (rel. According to the 0 BleepingComputer article Microsoft Edge 105 Won’t Start Due to Old Group Policy – How to Fix there are outdated versions of other privacy tools like PrivaZilla that have the same problem and will also re-create the deprecated MetricsReportingEnabled value in the registry. Once they deleted those registry values and updated O&O Shutup++ they had no further issues launching MS Edge. I believe the majority of users who encountered this problem in early September 2022 were using an outdated version of the O&O Shutup++ privacy tool that was incorrectly re-creating the deprecated MetricsReportingEnabled value in the registry. If you search your registry for MetricsReportingEnabled and cannot find that value at under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge or the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge registry keys then it’s unlikely that your problem launching Edge has anything to do with the issue being discussed in this thread. 2) – see the release notes for the stable release channel of MS Edge. I’m also running the current MS Edge v1.50 (rel. … I now have 105-0.1343.42 and still have the problem, but I don’t even have Computer HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge certainly not MetricsReportingEnabled ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |