Running MSEdgeRedirect.exe after installing from chocolatey breaks everything

callumjohnspiller commented 1 year ago

Preflight Checklist

[ ] Running microsoft-edge:https://google.com redirects successfully
[ ] Microsoft Edge is selected in any "How do you want to open this?" box

Install Type

New Install

Install Mode

Unsure

Steps to reproduce

Windows 10
Install Through Chocolatey
Runs the MSEdgeRedirect.exe to try and add features such as searching in Google that were not included with the chocolatey install
Finishes this .exe then tries to search with the bar and nothing happens
Uninstall MSEdgeRedirect using script in README
MS Edge now no longer opens

✔️ Expected Behavior

For the changes made in the MSEdgeRedirect.exe program to take effect

❌ Actual Behavior

The search bar no longer worked and The existing MSEdge installation was corrupted

Microsoft Windows version

"22H2 (OS Build 19045.2728)"

Other Software

No response

rcmaehl commented 1 year ago

Run Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} to fix Edge. I'll look into the Chocolately build here in a bit.

callumjohnspiller commented 1 year ago

Hi there, unfortunatey this didn't work to fix edge and I had to remove it and re-install to get it working again.

callumjohnspiller commented 1 year ago

Things are working again after I did a complete removal of Edge and MSEdgeRedirect using Geek Uninstaller (which also removes associated registry entries). If there was a way to pass some flags to the chocolatey package to enable some of the options found in the .exe that would be awesome. For now though I'll keep with the default options since running the .exe has been breaking things for me

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