Windows 10: Microsoft Edge Legacy Old is still showing in default apps menu.

Microsoft Edge Legacy browser has disappeared and new Microsoft Edge installs through updating Windows to 20H2. But I noticed that it is still showing in apps selection menu without icon "Open with" in context menu or default apps selection in Windows Settings. How do I get it removed from here?

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Searching in Start menu goes to IE instead of default browser (Edge) in Windows 10.

Hi,

To set Microsoft Edge as the default browser app, please follow the steps below:

• Click on the Start menu>Settings>System>Default apps.
• Choose Web browser then select Microsoft Edge.
• Close the windows to save.
  

Let us know how it goes.

 

Start Menu default showing all apps?


I recently installed windows 10 on an old notebook and for some reason the start menu looks like this:



I don't want it to show the alphabetical list of all the apps by default. On all my other computers the start menu looks more like this one.

http://home.bt.com/images/windows-10...0929103327.jpg

How do I change it? Its really bugging me.

 

Interesting quirk with Start -> Apps listing of Microsoft Edge

Although MS have 'removed' Legacy Edge with the latest CU and replaced it with the new Edge, the old one is not entirely gone. Some remnants are still in place as I understand that it's still required by the OS.

I believe 21H2 will be the first version of Win10 to have completely removed Legacy Edge and replaced it entirely with Chromium Edge.

Now the new Edge is a conventional .exe, installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application", while the Legacy Edge is a UWP app, located in C:\Windows\SystemApps. It is still there in 20H2, even after Legacy Edge was supposedly 'removed' (actually it seems it was just disabled and very well hidden).





The 'Edge' you are seeing in 'Programs' will be the new Chromium Edge, while the one you see under 'Apps' would be the last traces of the Legacy Edge app (and being a UWP app, that's where you should see it). Short of removing all traces of Legacy Edge (probably inadvisable) I think you'll just have to wait for the next major feature update in the second half of 2021.