Edge Not Opening Websites

Question

_{Monday, July 10, 2017 9:18 AM}

Edge browser on Windows 10 home latest version starts up OK but does not open any websites either from a typed URL or link. All other browsers such as Chrome, IE etc. open websites OK.

Have: Re-set Edge. Ran DISM, Ran SFC /scannow, checked no proxy server settings set, internet connection works fine. 

Finally the option to change default search provider is also greyed out as I cannot browse to the alternate providers website first.

Bing search does work, slowly, via Chrome browser but again not via Edge.

What can I try next to resolve this?

All replies (4)

_{Monday, July 10, 2017 8:04 PM}

So not browser works very well?

Try a clean boot to see if it is third party software causing it.

_{Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:08 AM}

Hi MartLea,

What's error message when you attempt to open the website via Microsoft Edge?

Try to fix it using the following steps:

1. Boot your system into safe mode.

2. Navigate to the location:

C:\Users\username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe

3. Delete everything in this folder including the folder.

4. Restart your system in normal mode.

5. Type Windows Powershell in search box.

6. Right click on Windows Powershell and select Run as administrator.

7. Copy and paste the following command.

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" –Verbose}

8. After running successfully, restart the Windows to check the result.

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_{Friday, August 4, 2017 8:20 AM}

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_{Monday, April 23, 2018 11:39 AM}

I'm having the same issue and tried all 7 steps above to no avail. 

I get a message from Edge saying ".... (website I am trying to open) is not responding". And there is a button to the right displaying "Recover webpage". When I press Recover webpage nothing happens, Edge is displaying "waiting for response" in the tab header.

Are there other things I could try?

Regards Bjørn

An update: The pages I am trying to open are actually opening, but extremely slowly, it takes several minutes to fully download web pages.