Ed Mullen wrote:
On 3/15/2016 11:58 PM, Paul's fingers rattled off:
Ed Mullen wrote:
On 3/15/2016 4:23 PM, Mark Lloyd's fingers rattled off:
On 03/15/2016 09:20 AM, Char Jackson wrote:

[snip]

I'm in general agreement with what you're requesting, so my primary
desktop
PC will stay on Win 7 SP1, while my work laptop will stay on Win 8.x,
which
is what it came with. No Win 10 digital entitlements for me, thank
you. I've
looked at Win 10 in a VM and wasn't impressed.


I put Win 10 (IIRC it was 9926 at first) on a VM. I have started it
for.

1. Check to see it it works.
2. Try to set it up properly
3. See if my website looks OK in Edge

Edge? Who cares?

I did a clean install of W10 and Edge doesn't even have a shortcut on
the Quick Launch, the Toolbar, the Start Menu ... nowhere to be found.

Click on the executable on C:? won't launch. Do you think I'm going
to worry about how my Web sites look an a browser I can't launch on a
clean install of an OS? I don't f*ing think so.

W10 is so disfunctional it makes Arnie on LS Law look sane.

Okay, sorry for the horribly outdated reference but I couldn't think
of a more recent analogy. Just watched like 5 episodes of The
Leftovers and my brain is still reeling.

Oh, and BTW, I did clean installs on two systems with the same results
vis-a-vis Edge. As I said: Who cares?

If Edge is standards compatible I'm okay because my sites are W3
compliant. If not? Well the 3 people who use Edge to surf? shrug

The funny part of the thread here, is a suggested workaround.

You can ask Cortana to "start Edge" and Cortana can do it for you :-)


Not if, like me, you have Cortana turned off. :-)

But, I just did Start - Search - Edge. Clicked the found Edge button. It
launched, was on screen about two seconds and terminated. Which is what
it's always done since I updated to W10.

Have you looked in Control Panel : Troubleshooting ?

I like to look in there for the amusement value,
rather than expecting something in there to fix the
setup. But, it's worth a shot.

I expect somewhere on your setup, it's logging "a registration
problem". Metro Apps have some sort of validation as part
of the launch sequence, which is why manually trying to run
some EXE you find, won't work. And that's where that silly
re-registration Powershell command comes in, for restoring
whatever signature scheme it uses. It isn't regsvr32 or anything.
It's a different kind of registration (for authenticity or
something).

Paul