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I'm using Windows 11 (22000.51.210619-2323.CO_RELEASE) on a Dell Latitude E7450 I'm using as a test device whilst I look around. Note that I haven't yet connected this laptop to my home network, let alone the internet.
I had Process Monitor (ProcMon) running when I noticed the amount of msedgewebview2.exe events being captured. (I also had the Services MMC snap-in, an elevated PowerShell console and a File Manager window open.)
I stopped what I was doing, filtered on the msedgewebview2.exe process and let ProcMon chunder on capturing events.
The number of events quickly became overwhelming so I stopped ProcMon's capture and looked at just one single minute's worth of events (from 21:51:01 to 21:52:02):
The results show 2980 msedgewebview2.exe events... the overwhelming majority being related to network settings in the Windows registry. That's an average of almost 50 events every single second.
Does anyone else see similar results? This is a standalone laptop doing nothing... supposedly. Does anyone know why this Edge control is continually querying network settings?
For those who don't know (and I didn't at first), Microsoft Edge WebView2:
That's fine, except as far as I know neither ProcMon, Services, PowerShell console nor File Manager use web technologies... and I wasn't running any other apps.
I had Process Monitor (ProcMon) running when I noticed the amount of msedgewebview2.exe events being captured. (I also had the Services MMC snap-in, an elevated PowerShell console and a File Manager window open.)
I stopped what I was doing, filtered on the msedgewebview2.exe process and let ProcMon chunder on capturing events.
The number of events quickly became overwhelming so I stopped ProcMon's capture and looked at just one single minute's worth of events (from 21:51:01 to 21:52:02):
The results show 2980 msedgewebview2.exe events... the overwhelming majority being related to network settings in the Windows registry. That's an average of almost 50 events every single second.
Does anyone else see similar results? This is a standalone laptop doing nothing... supposedly. Does anyone know why this Edge control is continually querying network settings?
For those who don't know (and I didn't at first), Microsoft Edge WebView2:
allows you to embed web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in your native apps. The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge (Chromium) as the rendering engine to display the web content in native apps. With WebView2, you may embed web code in different parts of your native app. (Microsoft Docs)
That's fine, except as far as I know neither ProcMon, Services, PowerShell console nor File Manager use web technologies... and I wasn't running any other apps.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Latitude E7450
- CPU
- i5-5300 @ 2.30 GHz
- Motherboard
- Dell 0D8H72
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD 5500
- Sound Card
- Realtek Audio
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 x 768
- Hard Drives
- Samsung PM851 128GB SSD
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender