Windows 10: Edge web address bar missing, StartPageAddressBarPinned & New dont fix

Hello,

Windows 10 Home, 10.0.10586, Edge 25.10586.0.0

I want a permanent address bar on Edge - it drives me crackers when I have to click at the top to get it.

I did a clean install a year ago and did this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wek yb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\ServiceUI]
"StartPageAddressBarPinned"=dword:00000001
"NewTabPageAddressBarPinned"=dword:00000001

It worked a treat and I didn't have 'Where to next?' but a nice address bar.
Yesterday I did a clean install and tried that trick, but it didn't work. I even downloaded two different scripts from the internet to do it, rebooted, tried the other, rebooted, did it manually 5 times (with reboots) but still no address bar.

I don't want to have to reinstall windows again in the hope it will work, only to find it still doesn't work.

Please help as I really have tried as much as I can.


Thanks, Ash

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Edge web address bar missing, StartPageAddressBarPinned & New dont fix

Hello,

Windows 10 Home, 10.0.10586, Edge 25.10586.0.0

I want a permanent address bar on Edge - it drives me crackers when I have to click at the top to get it.

I did a clean install a year ago and did this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wek yb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\ServiceUI]
"StartPageAddressBarPinned"=dword:00000001
"NewTabPageAddressBarPinned"=dword:00000001

It worked a treat and I didn't have 'Where to next?' but a nice address bar.
Yesterday I did a clean install and tried that trick, but it didn't work. I even downloaded two different scripts from the internet to do it, rebooted, tried the other, rebooted, did it manually 5 times (with reboots) but still no address bar.

I don't want to have to reinstall windows again in the hope it will work, only to find it still doesn't work.

Please help as I really have tried as much as I can.


Thanks, Ash

 

Edge web address bar missing, StartPageAddressBarPinned & New dont fix

Hi Ken,

Many thanks for that. I now have a version of Edge that has the address bar.

Edge: 81.0.416.64

For other users:

I did think it had not fixed the problem, I ran Edge from the start bar and got the same problems. However, when I ran the shortcut from the desktop it showed the new Edge with the address bar.

Looks like I now have two versions of Edge (argh!) which I now need to uninstall the old version. Maybe you should try uninstalling Edge and, using internet explorer, get the latest version of Edge.

Ash

 

Edge web address bar missing, StartPageAddressBarPinned & New dont fix

Hi Ash. Welcome to the TenForums @abtmuppet.

Are you using the new Edge, from your version number it appears to be the older one.

New Chromium based Microsoft Edge now generally available

This is not a beta product anymore so safe to use.


Ken