Windows 10: Windows 10 will begin promoting Microsoft Edge via Settings app

Microsoft’s latest effort to promote Chromium Edge involves a banner in the Windows 10 Settings app. In Windows 10 preview builds, if you install a third-party browser and set it as the default browser, a new banner in the Settings app will recommend the Chromium Edge browser.

Lately, Microsoft has been taking serious aim at the other browsers by introducing banners across the operating system to try to persuade rival browser fans to try the Chromium Edge.

At the moment, the new banner is only appearing in the Insider preview builds for Windows 10 Home and non-domain-joined Windows 10 Pro PCs.

It also appears that the banner is currently rolling out to select testers only, so this could be yet another experiment and we don’t know if everyone will see this message once the update is officially released.

To promote Microsoft Edge, Microsoft is using the Settings app’s header feature that currently sits at the top of the window and displays basic information like your user account, OneDrive, and Windows Update.

Microsoft first introduced the new Settings header with May 2020 Update and the purpose of the header is to display essential information. The tech giant is now exploring a new “Web Browsing” option within the header area to recommend the Chromium Edge.



If you click on the Web Browsing link and you’ve installed Chrome or Firefox, Microsoft will display a notification trying to persuade the user that they should be browsing with Chromium Edge instead.

Below the link, Microsoft is also displaying “Restore recommended” alert that allows you to set Chromium Edge as the default browser with one additional click.



Broadly speaking, there’s a lot to like about Microsoft Edge and it’s also better than Google Chrome, but there are some users who may not like Microsoft’s recommendations for its products and services within the OS.

Unfortunately, it appears that there’s no way to dismiss the recommendation, at least for now.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
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• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

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Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.