Microsoft Edge Will Not Open??

Hi everyone,

I was updating Edge and when it was meant to restart, it didn't load.

I have tried restarting my PC and repairing Edge in Apps & Features with no luck.

Can anyone help?

Try this. Open terminal (admin) PowerShell and copy and paste DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. Once completed run sfc /scannow . Reboot and try Edge again.

Do all instances of Edge shortcut icons fail - Desktop, Taskbar, Start menu, All Apps menu .... ?

Fabler2 said:

Try this. Open terminal (admin) PowerShell and copy and paste DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. Once completed run sfc /scannow . Reboot and try Edge again

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Tried this. It did not fix it

idgat said:

Do all instances of Edge shortcut icons fail - Desktop, Taskbar, Start menu, All Apps menu .... ?

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Yes, all of them

Cheers

Have a look at this (first part).

OK. I restored from an image and the same thing happened - I went to update Edge and when it was meant to restart it did not work.

Maybe a bad update?

How are you updating just Edge?

idgat said:

How are you updating just Edge?

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Settings and more > Help and feedback > About Microsoft Edge

Thanks!

Try my previous suggestion on reinstalling on win 11. Latest version is 105.0.1343.25 (Official build) (64-bit).

I can confirm this behaviour on win10 also. I restored back and am not going to update.

kado897 said:

I can confirm this behaviour on win10 also. I restored back and am not going to update.

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I just updated Edge (running Win 10), to v 105.0.1343.25, and everything seems to be running as normal.

...perhaps just an update timing issue?

Not sure if I should be happy I'm not alone or rather frustrated it happens...
I have the same issue and already tried without any effect:
- MS Edge repair
- MS Edge reinstall with offline installer
- MS Edge 105 Canary trick with disabling certain features (as found on the web)

Seems MS messed up with this one...

WXC said:

I just updated Edge (running Win 10), to v 105.0.1343.25, and everything seems to be running as normal.

...perhaps just an update timing issue?

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Possibly. I'll give it a try later.

kado897 said:

I can confirm this behaviour on win10 also. I restored back and am not going to update

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WXC said:

...perhaps just an update timing issue?

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I am going to do the same thing. I would not be surprised if this is a bug in the update randomly affecting people. I will try again when 22H2 comes out on the 20th (I will definitely image before that ).

People are asking at MS forums as well, but so far the only advice given to them is... restore.

swerd said:

I would not be surprised if this is a bug in the update randomly affecting people.

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It certainly seems random. I am in the UK, living less than 20 miles away from kado897 above. He had problems, I didn't.


...and after pressing Restart.

swerd said:

I am going to do the same thing. I would not be surprised if this is a bug in the update randomly affecting people. I will try again when 22H2 comes out on the 20th (I will definitely image before that ).

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Hi, Swerd,

Yep, it's definitely a random issue.

Good luck.

Huh, I just did a test on my work laptop with Win 11 21H2 Enterprise, and I confirm - no update issues whatsoever. Edge 105.0.1343.25 runs as expected.

My private device (Win 11 21H2 Pro) - as said earlier - refused to cooperate. Then I agree it's random, although it doesn't improve my situation!

mikolajek said:

People are asking at MS forums as well, but so far the only advice given to them is... restore.

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Any chance you could post a link?