Windows 10: Microsoft Edge keeps on closing after a few seconds of opening it

It appears this is, or it's related to, a permissions issue. This would immediately be confirmed if you receive an access denied error from one of the folders within Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe. when trying to delete; Attempting to use takeown or icacls failed to provide access to the offending folder.

If this occurs with anyone else, boot into WinRE and delete Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbw, ensuring to empty the recycle bin on drive X:\ prior to rebooting. Once rebooted, complete steps 2 & 3 of Tsirk's instructions. Once 3 is completed, you should now be able to open Edge.

 

I had this one as well but I do have a fix!!!
Delete the folder c:\users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe

where %username% is the name of the user with the issue.
Run Powershell as administrator (right click on it and select Run As Administrator) and run the following script:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}
Please note that you will need local admin privileges for this to work though that may be an issue with folder permissions. I will post back if I get any further info.

 

Pleased I found this thread as it happened to me today, clicked on the taskbar icon and nothing, followed Brinks tutorial and did the code for all users shut powershell then restarted the machine. Back up and running, well for the time being although I've been trying out Firefox and Chrome.

 

Same problem in latest Fast build 14316. Not timer related - just bam.

I keep going back to Chrome....

 

I found some way that worked and took a min. Type control panel and click programs. Once in programs click internet explore or chrome and set as default instead of edge. when I typed in internet explore it didn't close.

 

This is ****ing ridicules, I have tried every fix here and my Edge still keeps shutting down and will not stay up. I get a few days of no issues, then a whole day of issues. Microsoft needs to get this shit fixed ASAP. I ****ing tired of it. This on top of all the service_exception_errors and full shutdown of computer is really pissing me off. Every fix spoken about with both items, I have tried to no avail.

 

Hi.
We also had this problem with Edge and the Photos App opening and instantly closing when trying to open.
This happend only to domain joined Windows 10 computers (ver. 1607) so I suspected a GPO.
Solution:
We had a GPO that was messing with the: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider key
One thing the gpo did was replacing the permissions on the Networkprovider-key which resulted in that the local security group: ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES-group was removed from the NetworkProvider-key.
After adding: ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES-group and giving it Full Control to the: NetworkProvider-key, Edge and Photos application started working immediately.
Of course we also removed the GPO-setting that was causing the problem *Smile.
Hopfully someone finds this helpful.

 

Hello,
I had a same problem and since I spent a whole day solving it, I thought it would be nice to share my solution with you.
Steps :

• Login to you local account ( Start menu > Your account picture > Sign in with a local account )
• Login to your local account and open your system drive ( Usually C)
• Right click on "Users" > Properties > Security tab and then click on "Edit"
• Under "Group or user names" select Users(your PC name\Users)
• Permissions for Users > Full Control > Check "Allow" then hit Apply

Make sure that Authenticated Users, System and Administrators have a Full control !!!

Note :
I've tried almost all off the steps from previous posts, so probably something of it deserves a credit.

IMPORTANT : I also couldn't add my gmail account to default Mail App and finally after the process I described I was able to login also *Smile

I hope I saved you some time *Smile

 

gretsar - I would be carefull doing that - you may compromise your security. I too had problems with Edge and photo apps.
I did discover, quite by accident, some new releases of VPN and products such as Trustee Endpoint Protection will stop Edge working ( it just kept closing) . I dont know why. So know for me, if I want to use Edge, I must stop Trustee Endpoint Protection and restart it if I want to do online banking (I have to use Firefox). Pathetique isnt it!!!

 

When it opens try hitting Ctrl+t rapidly to open new tab. It works if the problem caused by a corrupted start page.