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[pandy]

Amazon sucked rodent behind already...

[pandy]

Edge was automagically updated. Now it tries to change the registry to let itself auto-start everytime I open it and it seems a little at random too.

I have this very small and old program that watches the registry for additions to that key and lets me reject it. Amazingly the program still works after what feels like decades. But it's getting a little tiresome to reject the Edge intrusion all the time since the program doesn't remember my previous choices.

Or maybe I'm exaggerating and it won't actually start Edge (if I let it), but just some process? Here's the string MS wants to add.

[Christian J]

Or maybe I'm exaggerating and it won't actually start Edge (if I let it), but just some process?

Seems to be a background process, I have 5 msedge.exe running as we speak.

[pandy]

But msedge.exe is the Edge executable, isn't it? Is it running in the background all the time? You don't even use Edge, do you?

BTW I can recommend the little StartupMonitor. It has stopped a lot of programs from running at startup for me. Normally it's enough to reject the intrusion once. It's easier than to remove them later. It's just 86 kB.

[Christian J]

But msedge.exe is the Edge executable, isn't it? Is it running in the background all the time?

Yes it seems so. Now I started Edge, and the number of processes was reduced to just two. When I closed Edge, there were five again.

You don't even use Edge, do you?

Only rarely, for testing.

[pandy]

I use is for the surveys we talked about earlier. I have 23 processes running. I win!

[Christian J]

Micorosft [sic!] reduces the number of ways to change default browser on Windows 11 and 10
https://mspoweruser.com/micorosft-reduces-t...dows-11-and-10/

[Christian J]

Microsoft to force install new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs in February

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micro...cs-in-february/

Possibly it only applies to Microsoft 365 app users?

[pandy]

Yeah, Outlook isn't fee, me thinks. Or was it OE also? Or maybe that one isn't around anymore? I don't seem to have anything outlook, more than folders in other program folders. That's about some integration, I assume. Adobe and whatnot.

[Christian J]

Yeah, Outlook isn't fee, me thinks. Or was it OE also? Or maybe that one isn't around anymore? I don't seem to have anything outlook, more than folders in other program folders. That's about some integration, I assume. Adobe and whatnot.

Seems they have a free webversion of Outlook.

Outlook Express? That was free in XP but I recall it was cancelled in Vista. Instead we got Windows Mail, but then they cancelled that too in Win10.

[pandy]

OK. I never used any of them and since hard drives got larger I haven't been so concerned about what unwanted programs may hide there, so I don't think I've looked for Outlook for several years. Until now.