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    Workaround for Microsoft Edge 105 startup problems

    Karlston

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    Microsoft published a new version of its Edge web browser to the Stable channel today. The new Edge browser fixes 15 different security issues, including one rated critical. Most of the security issues are shared with Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. Only one, a security issue rated low, affects Edge exclusively.

     

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    Edge users may want to hold off on updating the browser, as reports are coming in that some Edge installations do not start up properly anymore after the update.

     

    Those who want to risk it may load edge://settings/help in the browser's address bar to display the installed version and update the browser.

     

    Microsoft Edge 105 includes improves to the browser's enhanced security mode. Enhanced Security mode is disabled by default; once enabled under Privacy, search, and services in the Settings, it is providing additional protections on some, many or all sites visited in Edge. An option to add exceptions is provided.

     

    The remaining changes are of use for organizations only.  Microsoft improved cloud site list management for the browser's Internet Explorer mode and updated several policies.

    Edge 105 not starting

    Edge 105 may not start properly anymore after the update to version 105. Our colleagues at Deskmodder have found a workaround for the issue. The issue seems to be caused by Registry keys that seem to have been added to the Registry by accident during the update.

     

    Edge users who are affected by the startup issue need to delete MetricsReportingEnabled keys in the Registry.

     

    1. Open the Registry Editor: use Windows-R to open the run box, type regedit and hit the Enter-key.
    2. Confirm the UAC prompt.
    3. Select Edit > Find.
    4. Search for MetricsReportingEnabled.
    5. Delete the one or two instances of the key in the Registry.

     

    Microsoft Edge should start normally after the keys have been deleted.

     

    It is unclear how widespread the issue is. Microsoft deprecated the MetricsReportingEnabled and SendSiteInformationToImproveServices policies when it released Microsoft Edge 86 and made them obsolete in Edge 89.

     

    Cautious Edge users may want to create a system backup before updating Edge to a new version. Most users may want to wait until the issue is resolved on Microsoft's end before updating Edge.

     

    Now You: do you use Microsoft Edge?

     

     

     

    Workaround for Microsoft Edge 105 startup problems

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    Kalju
    1. First of all - there is no such problem
    2. secondly - there are no such registry keys that are discussed here
    3. third - can't imagine what these people mean when they talk about/recommend doing EDGE Backup.
    4. fourth - I can't imagine what they mean by saying "Edge users may want to hold off on updating the browser...", because if you have a good system, you have to work really hard to prevent Edge from updating. Otherways it will always update automaticaly.

    In a word, commissioned article writers have woken up from hibernation again, and all this talk is fiction. But why? I don't know, I don't understand why it is necessary to invent such non-existent things.

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    UberGeek

    Can confirm that I encountered this startup issue . . . happens to be one of those exceedingly rare occasions (I'm particularly meticulous with the way I handle my installations.)

     

    My registry had one instance of the MetricsReportingEnabled string at the following location:-

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\MetricsReportingEnabled

     

    Actually, logged-in here just to acknowledge the presence of this issue . . . would've been a PITA to troubleshoot the same (on my own.)

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    nsw

    I also had the same MS Edge startup issue and found exactly the same single instance of MetricsReportingEnabled in my registry as UberGeek.

     

    I resolved the Issue quickly thanks to the post from Karlston.

     

     

     

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    Kalju

    How is such a thing possible when this option was only used in first Enterprise versions, which were in use before version 89.0.774.18, which was released as  Stable version on February 3, 2021, and after this version, such a device no longer exists eeven in Enterprise version. Did you really put it there yourself and have never cleaned registry during at least 1 andhalf year. And only now, when such a thing is not in use and 1 year and 6 months have passed, someone finds it in their registry.
    How is such a thing at all possible, and now sombody sais that version 105 have problems with such settings.

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