I contacted Edge support and sent a feedback in the feedback app, that Edge and EdgeWebView are duplicated in 3 locations 4 times and they are the same files
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge About 700MB
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore About 1400MB (it will contain a copy of Edge and another copy of EdgeWebView as they are different version most of the time)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView About 700 MB and the same files as first folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate Will contain the installers and it is about 300MB
And told them there are always 4 copies and keeps updated almost each week. Microsoft replied they are are planning to merge Edge and EdgeWebView as they are the same files.
I waited and I was hopping they will fix this duplicated files soon, but instead they added another 2 versions of EdgeWebView in these 2 folders:
C:\Windows\System32\Microsoft-Edge-WebView
C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-edge-webview_xxxxxxxxxxx_10.0.22621.xxxx_none_webview_xxxxxxxxxxx (xxxxx depends on the version)
And if you didn't clean WinSXS folder there will be older versions of EdgeWebView in the WinSXS folder.
Now there are at least 6 Copies of Edge in these folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView
C:\Windows\System32\Microsoft-Edge-WebView
C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-edge-webview_*****
And they will be updated each week, it is useless of at least 5GB used space and keeps written to the disk each week which will reduce the age of SSD drives for all users.
Anyone can help me? I will not contact Microsft anymore because I am afraid they will add more copies in more folders if I contect them.
And I don't even use Edge, I use Firefox!
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge About 700MB
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore About 1400MB (it will contain a copy of Edge and another copy of EdgeWebView as they are different version most of the time)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView About 700 MB and the same files as first folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate Will contain the installers and it is about 300MB
And told them there are always 4 copies and keeps updated almost each week. Microsoft replied they are are planning to merge Edge and EdgeWebView as they are the same files.
I waited and I was hopping they will fix this duplicated files soon, but instead they added another 2 versions of EdgeWebView in these 2 folders:
C:\Windows\System32\Microsoft-Edge-WebView
C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-edge-webview_xxxxxxxxxxx_10.0.22621.xxxx_none_webview_xxxxxxxxxxx (xxxxx depends on the version)
And if you didn't clean WinSXS folder there will be older versions of EdgeWebView in the WinSXS folder.
Now there are at least 6 Copies of Edge in these folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView
C:\Windows\System32\Microsoft-Edge-WebView
C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-edge-webview_*****
And they will be updated each week, it is useless of at least 5GB used space and keeps written to the disk each week which will reduce the age of SSD drives for all users.
Anyone can help me? I will not contact Microsft anymore because I am afraid they will add more copies in more folders if I contect them.
And I don't even use Edge, I use Firefox!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 vmware
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- MSI GT83VR 7RF Titan SLI
- CPU
- i7 7820HK
- Memory
- 64GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA 1080 2x SLI
- Sound Card
- Realtek Nahimic 3