There are 2 disturbances in the list of search engines in Edge. 1 - Bing that cannot be deleted. 2 - The browser automatically adds more search engines. The "Don't add custom search engines" extension is undeveloped and inefficient. I used the ManagedSearchEngines policy to eliminate automatic addition of search engines to list and set DuckDuckGo as the only default search engine. Code: ManagedSearchEngines you must enter the registry key as a string value: Code: [{"allow_search_engine_discovery":false},{"is_default":true,"name":"DuckDuckGo","keyword":"duckduckgo.com","search_url":"https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}","suggest_url":"https://www.duckduckgo.com/qbox?query={searchTerms}","image_search_url":"https://www.duckduckgo.com/images/detail/search?iss=sbiupload"}] Those who want to test to see that other search engines are not added just go to "Ecosia" and obviously search for something.
I had a little trouble entering it via CMD, but regconvert from Sordum came to the rescue. Code: reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" /v "ManagedSearchEngines" /t REG_SZ /d "[{\"allow_search_engine_discovery\":false},{\"is_default\":true,\"name\":\"DuckDuckGo\",\"keyword\":\"duckduckgo.com\",\"search_url\":\"https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}\",\"suggest_url\":\"https://www.duckduckgo.com/qbox?query={searchTerms}\",\"image_search_url\":\"https://www.duckduckgo.com/images/detail/search?iss=sbiupload\"}]" /f Thank you so much @Sampei Nihira , I have been trying to tackle this problem for years and I eventually gave up. Thanks.
to mention a question from the edge thread and make a very important think clear. those here and in that thread are NO policies, only reghacks. Where is the difference? First to set a GPO (group policy object) you need the group policy editor which is not available in HOME versions (later again). Next is that a policy is set on system startup and/or user login. third, a GPO is controlled regularly, so the engine behind is checking if the policy is still set as wanted and corrects it if not. a reghack is nothing of this. a reghack is neither secure nor controlled, it can be overwritten any time without concequences. if you can use the GP editor is wide to use this instead reghacks - to follow. the GPO settings are stored elswhere, in non of the following path, those are only "copies" then there exist a difference between user settings HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies and system policies HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies for edge both is possible where user setting override system setting (is more specific). except edge update which is only available in HKLM, for reason. now the important - HOME builds dont have a GP editor (gpedit.msc) and its not available not installable not plugin-able - in short: it wont work on HOME builds. for HOME builds those users can only use reghacks, sadly but it is. for the example above, nice to have, thank you. for the detail - it has to be a valid JSON format! in one single line. so if you create such rule in eg notepad++ you need to "compress" it later (json plugin) and insert it into the GPO or reghack. reg-multiline is not usable. HTH
Did you write this post ? https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...-channel-releases.451296/page-15#post-3175968 It looks to me like you wrote....................... "Edge policies". Do you have a question on topic? Which I almost certainly will not answer. If you don't have any question better keep quiet.
