Meanie news 2017 12:28:50 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 4/26/2017 7:45 AM, CRNG wrote:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:22:55 -0700 (PDT), ItsJoanNotJoann
wrote in


I've got Edge killed on my laptop.

How do you do that? Remove it? Disable it?


I'm curious as well since Edge cannot be removed from the PC
without
deleting crucial files associated with the operating system.

Ayep. Which is also the reason why I copied the post here. Edge does
some rendering work for some applications that don't actually have
'code' for a GUI...As in, executable code.

This isn't new to Windows 10, though. Windows XP did it too. Norton
Antivirus 2003 was a rocking example of what I'm writing about, too.
it's gui, including the installer was html pages, rendered with the
IE built into Windows XP. If something was wrong with IE, you
couldn't actually complete the installation. Even if norton itself
had no problems, you couldn't complete the install, because, it was
dependant on IE doing the heavy lifting.

This concept does reduce development time and costs, since you don't
have to write actual code for a GUI, but, it has the side effect of
requiring the rendering engine you're using instead to be working
correctly.

You can disable edge from being 'used' er, by you, to some level,
but, it's not totally dead and you aren't going to actually remove
it, either. Windows 10 depends on it for behind the scenes work that
users typically don't give a second thought to. As is clearly obvious
if you read the replies to this thread. Sheesh!

This is what happens when various companies with power elect to 'dumb
down' the computers and convince users to treat them like they would,
say, a toaster oven. Malware still requires the PEBKAC to do it's
thing, most of the time. And, that's plentiful; Hell, it's more
plentiful now than it ever was. Just take the replies in this thread
for an example of it.



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