Commander Kinsey wrote:


What utter bull**** you talk. I have told you countless times that when
I installed Windows 10 I was given IE, which offered the installation of
Edge (I actually had to download it!!!)

Were you using Windows 10 N ?

There are various SKUs with either browser absent or multimedia
absent, for European usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions

"Variations

As with previous versions of Windows since XP, all Windows 10
editions for PC hardware have "N" and "KN" variations in Europe
and South Korea that exclude certain bundled multimedia functionality,
including media players and related components, in order to comply
with antitrust rulings. The "Media Feature Pack" can be installed
to restore these features."

So first you check whether there's actually a version that
doesn't have it.

The Enterprise should not have MSEdge, as the "stable" Windows image
at first was not supposed to include "unstable" crap :-) Ya gotta love
business customers with a sense of humor. Who knows, maybe the
Military version of Windows 10 is missing it too.

*******

There is an example of someone not seeing MSEdge here.

https://superuser.com/questions/9492...0-edge-browser

At one time, this could be caused by a damaged tile cache, but
normally there would be more damage than just MSEdge not showing up.
Such damage could happen on a *fresh* install, not even an upgrade
install, implying a software race condition or something that
is randomly cropping up. This behavior has disappeared in the
last few versions of Windows 10.

I managed to remove MSEdge once, but it wasn't really removed. What
you see is a "space" on the Task Bar where the icon should go. If
you "click" the space, Edge starts anyway. So all that my
removal command did, was remove the icon for it.

If you find a MicrosoftEdge.exe file, that is *not* an executable.
Apps need to be "launched" not executed, and running the EXE
(I tried this), yields a "no-op" response. There's no error message,
just nothing happens. There is a whole ceremony about messing
around with this stuff (making shortcut icons via the Apps Folder),
which still isn't a solution as such. Explorer apparently has
a "shell:" option for launching, but it takes a whole
line-o-text to make it work.

It's possible MSEdge was sitting there the whole time,
but was too bashful to come out of hiding. As it's designed
to resist removal. First you have to flip the "isInbox" bit
in the sqlite database, and even after that, the normal
removal method doesn't/can't remove it entirely. There
will always be some portion of it sticking around. That's
why I doubt it was really gone, and it was being bashful
and hiding out... Repairing it, would of course put back
the one or two damaged or missing files.

When making a claim like that, you'd first try to locate
the MSEdge folder.

Then, you might try the AppFolder method of coaxing it out
of hiding.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...universal-apps

If the only place you can find references to it is in
WinSXS, then you might try reinstalling it.

Paul