I therefore used a firewall (simplewall) to block communication functions such as resurrected IE execution and telemetry. There is no Edge executable in the system. I manually updated to “20H2” from “1909”, which has reached its support expiration date, but the New “Edge” has been removed.Īfter the update was completed, the New “Edge” was automatically executed, but after rebooting the PC, “both the old and new Edge” disappeared without a trace. Interested in this article, I tried to inspect the settings of “Edge” and others, but “Edge” itself did not exist. Yes, now Edge will load faster, simply because it will now only partially close when you think you are terminating its processes the consequence of this is now your entire system will have less RAM and will boot slower. There are effective ways to improve application load speed, and “startup boosters” are nothing more than snake oil that tricks the user into thinking something something is performing better, when in fact, it really makes everything worse. Personally, I don’t use any “startup boosters”, and when I see them, I immediately lose much respect for the application developers. The big downside is that Edge will now be using precious RAM even when it’s not running. So your Windows system will now boot even slower (and MS isn’t exactly a star with their slow Windows 10 boot times, as compared to a more efficient OS like Linux).īut that’s not the biggest downside of this nonsense. Startup boosters are for programmers who don’t know how to program efficiently or effectively.Īll they are doing is time shifting the slow loading of Edge (which is mostly just the sluggish Chrome reboxed) to boot time instead of when you actually run the app. Now You: What is your take on Startup Boost? System administrators may use the new StartupBoostEnabled policy to turn off the feature. Toggle the Startup Boost switch on the page that opens, so that it has a gray background with a black dot.Įdge will remove its startup process so that it is not started anymore with the system after the change is made.Load edge://settings/system in the browser's address bar.You can disable it in the Task Manager under Startup or another autostart manager, but it is not clear if Microsoft will enable the option again if Startup Boost is enabled in the browser itself.ĭisabling the startup process does not turn off the feature in Microsoft Edge. The safest option is to turn off the feature in Microsoft Edge. How to disable Microsoft Edge Startup Boost Check if Microsoft Edge is listed among the startup programs. If you don't want to start Edge, open the Task Manager instead or another startup manager, e.g. You can either open Microsoft Edge, load edge://settings/system in the browser's address bar and check the Startup Boost setting there. You have two main options to find out if Startup Boost is enabled. Those who don't use Microsoft's web browser actively, may want to disable Startup Boost as it offers no value and may add to the startup time of the system (not by much, but still).ĭuring the Beta period, Startup Boost was only enabled on devices with Edge as the default browser, and only if these devices had more than 4 Gigabytes of RAM, or more than 1 Gigabyte of RAM if a modern hard disk was installed. Not a new concept, but Microsoft notes that it will give the opening of Microsoft Edge on sign-in of a user or after closing the browser completely a significant boost.Įdge users benefit from the feature, especially since it does not cost a lot of resources according to Microsoft. Basically, what the feature does is load core Microsoft Edge processes in the background on system start. Startup Boost aims to speed up the launch of the Microsoft Edge web browser on Windows devices.
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