Many friends have upgraded to win11 system. It is not difficult to find that in win11, Microsoft has made greater efforts to promote edge and Bing.
For example, when opening PDF files, even if other PDF readers are installed in the computer, win11 is still likely to call edge to open PDF; For another example, in fact, starting from win10, windows system search comes with Bing's Web search results, and clicking these search results will open them with edge browser, even if your default browser is chrome and other products.
These overbearing settings in win11 make many friends feel uncomfortable. What should I do? Today, we will introduce a awesome open source gadget for you to liberate from Edge and Bing's binding.
MSEdgeRedirect:
https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect
This gadget is called msedgeredirect. It is an open source software and is very trustworthy. Click "download last test stable release" on the above page to start using.
It should be noted that because it will modify some system settings, it may encounter Windows Defender alerts. Select "more" and allow it to continue running.
After msedgeredirect is enabled, you can select two modes, corresponding to single user and all users respectively. Selecting all users to take effect requires further authorization, and selecting the version of edge browser, which can be selected as needed.
After entering the next interface, you can configure various functions of msedgeredirect. It can be seen that msedgeredirect can unbind windows store apps, customize the association of PDF files, replace the network results of win11 system search with Google and other search engines, and even switch the weather source of win11 weather. It is still very powerful.
After checking the changes you want to make, you can click "Install" to make msedgeredirect take effect.
In general, msedgeredirect is still very simple and easy to use. If you don't like the strong push of edge and Bing by win11, want to open PDF with other software, and want to use other network search engines in system search, you might as well try msedgeredirect.