How do I debloat Edge WebView2?

Secrios · Oct 28, 2025

Every time I start up I get a load of Microsoft edge webview2 processes.
I am wondering if there is a way to harmlessly stop these since I don't use any web searching on my windows search.
I ran a test of perf mon and some of these sometimes spike a tiny bit which effect gaming cpu cycles.

dacrone · Oct 28, 2025

do you use edge at all? if you use another browser, its easy to do with sordum's free tool:

Edge Blocker v2.0

If you want to block EDGE, the default Windows 11 and 10 browser, for any reason, you can use free and portable Programm Edge Blocker.

www.sordum.org

Secrios · Oct 28, 2025

dacrone said:
do you use edge at all? if you use another browser, its easy to do with sordum's free tool:

Edge Blocker v2.0

If you want to block EDGE, the default Windows 11 and 10 browser, for any reason, you can use free and portable Programm Edge Blocker.

www.sordum.org

Anything more manual or hands on?

dacrone · Oct 28, 2025

do you use edge?

Secrios · Oct 28, 2025

dacrone said:
do you use edge?

No but I think there might be more to it than just edge. I read somewhere about a render engine in search or something.

glasskuter · Oct 28, 2025

Don’t uninstall WebView2: It’s a core runtime. Removing it can break apps that depend on it.
Just as with the Edge browser, WebView2 has a multi-process architecture. There are separate processes for rendering, GPU and background updates.

Multiple applications embed WebView2 into their interface, especially those in the 365 suite as well some 3rd party apps. A single app can open multiple instances of WebView2

You can enable the command line column in Task Manager to see which app launched each WebView2 process. (right click on column and put a check by command line.) You can prevent any unnecessary startup apps.

dacrone · Oct 28, 2025

i asked because it depends on components of webview. if not, just uninstall webview2 runtime.

or block (can just block it with Defender) /delete

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\<version>\msedgewebview2.exe

garlin · Oct 29, 2025

Secrios said:
Every time I start up I get a load of Microsoft edge webview2 processes.
I am wondering if there is a way to harmlessly stop these since I don't use any web searching on my windows search.

Stop SearchHost.exe from running?

werty · Oct 29, 2025

Secrios said:
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Every time I start up I get a load of Microsoft edge webview2 processes.
I am wondering if there is a way to harmlessly stop these since I don't use any web searching on my windows search.
I ran a test of perf mon and some of these sometimes spike a tiny bit which effect gaming cpu cycles.

Hi,

Open Edge and in Settings/ System i think there is an option that keeps Edge running in the background - disable it. Also open Task manager/Start-up apps and disable it from there too.

Good luck,
werty

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