Edge keeps popping up

If Windows was freshly installed Edge would not pop up.  Try download chrome install.exe on a USB drive then do a clean Windows install.  Do not click edge ever.  Run chrome install exe 

Hi

I run Tiny11.

You cannot install stock Windows 11 with no Edge bits at all, but you can either:

• use a trimmed image (Tiny11 or Tiny11Builder) that simply never installs Edge, or

• install normal Windows 11, then cleanly remove or effectively neuter Edge and install another browser without ever opening it.​

Use Tiny11 / Tiny11Builder

This is the cleanest way if you are happy with an unofficial, debloated build.

• Tiny11 variants of Windows 11 are built specifically with Edge and a lot of inbox apps removed, so the system comes up with no Edge installed.​

• You can build your own “Tiny11” ISO from a genuine Microsoft ISO using Tiny11Builder, then install from that USB like a normal Windows setup.

NB: It does not stop MS continually trying to run EdgE rather than something better like DuckDuckGo.

@anne_droid​ I am sorry if I was not clear. This is on a brand new Dell computer that came with Windows already installed. I am stuck with their preinstalled windows. And of course, Dell claims no responsibility for software even though they provide it installed in this manner. I would hope that there is a way to stop edge from opening every time the computer lights off.

Hi

Well I put my own version on, and this is being typed under Linux Mint.

IF I wanted to stop edge I would ......

use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

perhaps and try to resolve the issues.