[Tip] How to Disable or Remove Edge Bar from Desktop in Windows 10 and 11
Edge Bar is a new feature present in Microsoft Edge web browser. It can be used to display a new Sidebar or Search box on Desktop in Windows 10 and Windows 11. In this article, we’ll learn how to enable or disable the new Edge bar on Windows Desktop.
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What is Edge Bar on Desktop?
Edge bar is a new component introduced in Microsoft Edge browser. Once enabled, it shows a sidebar or toolbar on Desktop which is pinned by default to the right-side of the computer screen. It contains a Bing search box at the top and opens default MSN homepage inside it. It also contains a few website shortcut icons such as MSN, Bing, Outlook and LinkedIn at the top of the sidebar which can be used to open the websites directly inside the Edge bar.
Following screenshot shows Edge Bar showing on Windows 11 Desktop:
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How to Customize Edge Bar on Windows Desktop?
You can remove default website icons from the Edge bar by right-clicking on the icon and selecting “Remove” option. MSN and Bing icons are sticky and can’t be deleted. You can also add new website bookmarks by clicking on the “+” button and entering website URL and name.
At the bottom of the Edge bar, you get icons to select your user profiles, minimize, close, pin/unpin, auto-hide the sidebar and a 3-dots menu button to access Edge bar settings.
You can also convert the Edge bar into a floating Search box. Click on the 3-dots menu icon in Edge bar and select “Search only layout” option. It’ll remove the sidebar and will put a big Search box on the Desktop powered by Bing as shown in following screenshot:
You can again switch to the sidebar by clicking on the 3-dots menu icon on Search box and select “Vertical layout” option.
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When you switch to another program or minimize the sidebar, Edge bar displays a floating Edge icon at the bottom-right corner to access the Edge bar quickly and easily as shown in following screenshot:
You can disable or remove the floating icon by clicking on the 3-dots menu icon on Edge bar and unchecking “Enable floating button” option.
You can remove the Edge bar anytime by right-clicking on its icon showing in Taskbar notification area (system tray) and selecting Quit option. But it’ll automatically appear on Desktop as soon as you sign into Windows.
How to Enable or Disable Edge Bar on Windows Desktop?
Some Windows users might receive Edge bar automatically on their Windows Desktop as the feature is being rolled out in phases. Some users might not see the Edge bar yet.
Edge bar can be easily enabled or disabled using Microsoft Edge settings page. Microsoft has provided an option in Edge Settings to activate or deactivate Edge bar. If you want to add or remove Edge bar on Windows Desktop, following steps will help you:
1. Open Microsoft Edge browser and click on the 3-dots menu button present at the right-side of the toolbar. Now select Settings option from the main menu.
Alternatively, you can press ALT+F keys together to show Edge Menu and then press S key to open Settings page.
You can also directly open Edge Settings page using edge://settings/ URL in address bar.
2. Now in left sidebar, click on Sidebar tab and in right-side pane, you’ll see following option:
Always show sidebar
If you want to enable Edge bar on the Desktop, set the option to ON and whenever you’ll start your computer, Edge bar will automatically appear on the Desktop. You can immediately add Edge bar on Desktop by clicking on “Open Edge bar” option.
If you want to disable or remove Edge bar from Desktop, set the option to OFF and Edge bar will not start automatically with Windows. You can immediately close Edge bar by right-clicking on its tray icon and selecting Quit option.
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I absolutely hate edge side bar. Please don’t make it so difficult to work out how to switch it off.
When the Edge bar is running and blurring the right side of your screen, you cant see the controls. Move your cursor slowly to the bottom right, eventually you will hover, even though you cant see it, over the Close Edge bar icon. A message should pop up, confirming that if that is your desired option. Click on the icon you cant see, and it closes. Make sure you disabled the startup Edge bar button in settings, or it will come back on reboot.
I thank you ever so much this is the only instructions that I was able to get back to my full screen and disable the edge bar
I used the border bar a lot (on the desktop with other applications), but mine just disappeared today when I restarted the browser and (I’ve been researching this for more than 1 hour) there are no more border bar options in the settings from the edge, only those from the sidebar. Looks like microsoft did away with the edge bar to force you to use the edge browser. 🙁
NONE! of the options to remove the sidebar actually works,.. it seems everytime there’s a regedit or a disable tab or ANY means of NOT using it, Microsoft disables them and forces the sidebar on,… I even tried the regedit fix once which worked,.. until the next reboot ,. and then subsequently any attempt to use the same regedit fix would fail!