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rcmaehl / MSEdgeRedirect

A Tool to Redirect News, Search, Widgets, Weather and More to Your Default Browser
https://MSEdgeRedirect.com
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UCPD blocking Europe Mode #404

Open procionecurioso opened 3 months ago

procionecurioso commented 3 months ago

Preflight Checklist

Install Type

New Install

Install Mode

Europe Mode

Steps to reproduce

I opened msedgeredirect in a new installation of windows, then used europe mode with the Italian nation, and even restarting it remained in the old parameters of united states

✔️ Expected Behavior

That it changes the parameters and makes me uninstall edge and disable bing search, but I saw that it doesn't work even with other nations for example germany

❌ Actual Behavior

The parameters that are not changed are: machine region, user region, and user region id. And it doesn't let me uninstall edge despite being in the latest version of windows (I point out that I installed an Italian iso to try and it makes me uninstall it perfectly)

Microsoft Windows version

23h2 22631.3296

Other Software

Nothing fresh install

rcmaehl commented 3 months ago

Can you upload Install.log from %localappdata%\MSEdgeRedirect\Logs

procionecurioso commented 3 months ago

Install.log

vvirtues commented 3 months ago

Same thing. Redirection works but cannot uninstall

vvirtues commented 3 months ago

I'm using Germany (the defualt)

rcmaehl commented 2 months ago

Looks like this is due to Microsoft adding additional protections

https://kolbi.cz/blog/2024/04/03/userchoice-protection-driver-ucpd-sys/

MishaProductions commented 2 months ago

I reverse engineered some parts of that driver, and it appears that it only allows ms signed binaries to modify those registry keys, except for a few binaries. image Renaming reg.exe to something else is enough to bypass the driver.

dev-hanzala commented 1 month ago

I disabled ucpd and ran europe mode but windows still wont let me uninstall edge. every thing seems to have worked.

Pre-European Install Values of: 176|176|176 & NL|NL

UPDATE: It is now uninstallable after a week or so. dont know what caused it

ViktorVoloshko commented 3 weeks ago

I disabled ucpd and ran europe mode but windows still wont let me uninstall edge. every thing seems to have worked.

Same. I booted into Safe Mode which allows you to change device region w/o any issues but it didn't unblock Uninstall button for me.

Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC