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This morning, I power up the same PC, and it's back. So as far as I can tell, the update forces the presence of an Edge browser shortcut on the Windows 10 desktop.
I remember an old post in the Old New Thing about why the systray has no API to show/hide icons. (Answer: Because if it had an API, application would abuse it to force to show crap.)
Note that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of many that does the same thing, it used to do it, stopped for a while, and is now doing it again.
My errant thought is that this sort of thing happens when the marketing departments gain prominence within an organization.
Can confirm this is happening as well. I keep deleting it but it keeps coming back. Oh well, I might write a script to delete it automatically.
It happens when Edge updates which, like Chrome, happens fairly frequently so I can understand why you might think that it is forced. But you can delete it and not have it appear until Edge updates again. Note that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of many that does the same thing, it used to do it, stopped for a while, and is now doing it again. My errant thought is that this sort of thing happens when the marketing depar…
Can confirm this is happening as well. I keep deleting it but it keeps coming back. Oh well, I might write a script to delete it automatically.
a script for that? seriously?
I found details in the ms.edge admx documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...
(An admx is for adding group policy templates but group policy is essentially a nice list of registry changes.
You (reader) can find the reg entry and enter it manually or might can download and install the admx package and make the change through your computers local group policy (gpedit.msc)