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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by gigel82 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @03:48PM (#35212456)
That hides the UI entry point, but widgets.exe continues running, along with 5-6 edgewebview2.exe processes, taking up valuable resources. If you try to kill widgets.exe, a system service restarts it :(

Unfortunately, the powershell incantation is the only way to get rid of it...

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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by permo-w on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:19PM (#35212728)
will there not be some registry entry you can change?
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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by gigel82 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:32PM (#35212828)
No, there is no way to disable it via registry or group policy that I know of.
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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by SpaghettiCthulu on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:06PM (#35223626)
These "powershell incantations" usually modify the registry or group policy, or delete or replace system files behind the scenes. And from my experience the ones that modify system files often don't persist across system updates.
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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by gigel82 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:24PM (#35226047)
winget uninstall "Windows web experience Pack"

Get-AppxPackage *WebExperience* | Remove-AppxPackage

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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by benhurmarcel on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:26PM (#35224336)
I just checked, and yes you're right. But it uses 1.2 MB of RAM, and no CPU.
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