[Tip] How to Restore “Close All Tabs” Confirmation Message in Microsoft Edge

If you are using Microsoft Edge web browser in Windows 10 operating system, you might have noticed that it comes with “Warn on Close” feature. If you have opened multiple tabs in Edge browser and you click on Close button, it shows a warning or confirmation message to ask for your permission before closing its browser window.

If you click on “Close all” button, it closes the window and all tabs. If you click on Cancel button, it doesn’t close the window.

The warning message box also contains a checkbox “Always close all tabs“. If you enable the checkbox while clicking on “Close all” button, Microsoft Edge will never show you the warning or confirmation message if you click on Close button with multiple tabs open.

If you accidentally or intentionally selected the “Always close all tabs” option and now you want to restore the “Warn on Close” feature in Microsoft Edge, this tutorial will help you.

Today in this article, we’ll tell you how to restore “Close all tabs” confirmation message in Edge browser in Windows 10 if you click on Close button.

Actually Microsoft Edge browser doesn’t come with any built-in setting or option to re-enable the “Do you want to close all tabs” prompt. We’ll need to modify Windows Registry to bring it back.

Following steps will help you in getting back the “Close all tabs” warning message in Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10:

1. Press WIN+R keys together to launch RUN dialog box. Now type regedit and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to following key:

PS: You can copy and paste the above mentioned path in Registry Editor’s address bar.

3. In right-side pane, look for AskToCloseAllTabs DWORD.

If its value is set to 1, it means the “Close all tabs” confirmation message is enabled.

If its value is set to 0, it means the “Close all tabs” confirmation message is disabled.

Since you want to restore the confirmation message, double-click on it and set its value to 1

That’s it. Close Registry Editor and now Microsoft Edge will start showing “Close all tabs” warning or confirmation message again.

UPDATE: If you are using new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, following tutorial will help you in adding warn on close multiple tabs feature:

[Tip] Enable Warning Message on Closing Multiple Tabs in Microsoft Edge

NOTE: If you are using any other web browser and want to enable or disable “Warn on Close” feature, following tutorial will help you:

[Tip] Enable / Disable Warning on Closing Multiple Tabs in All Web Browsers