On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 3:05:24 AM UTC-4, Diesel wrote:
ItsJoanNotJoann news:dc74065e-2518-4ec2-
Thu, 27 Apr 2017 04:40:18 GMT in
alt.home.repair, wrote:

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Nope, absolutely not, never, ever, ever see Edge. Never
makes an appearance. You can set your browser to whatever
you want. Just because Edge comes with W-10 doesn't mean
it can't be disabled.

You misunderstood what I wrote. if a program has html instead of it's
own actual executable code to render the graphical user interface,
EDGE will render it for the program, without identifying itself as
edge. It won't look like a web browser to you at all. It'll look like
the programs authors intended for their GUI to look, instead.

Windows 10, despite your efforts to 'disable' it also uses Edge to
render some of the screens you see when you actually use the OS
itself. It's one of the reasons you can't actually remove it. Windows
10 itself, uses it. You can elect not to surf the web with it, but,
you can't really stop Windows 10 and some apps from using it to
render their own GUIs.

Just like win9x, etc etc etc used IE to render some of it's own
screens, without appearing to look anything like IE while doing so.

Am I explaining what I meant better?



I just ran into an example of what Diesel is talking about. I went
to print out a PDF file on a Win 10 system and it brought up a screen
that I've seen before, hated, thought was difficult to use, but I
never paid that much attention to it. This time, I realized it is in
fact Edge, that it uses to view/print PDF files. I figured out how to change
it, so that now it used Adobe Acrobat instead. But it is an example of
how with the default settings, Edge is being used for things you would
not expect. And it really sucks, because on the version of Edge that
it brings up to view PDF, you can't even easily find where to print.

So, that's an example of where I'm not using Edge for a browser, yet
Win 10 default is to use it to view PDF.