Quick fix: Right-click any open tab in Edge → Turn on vertical tabs. The horizontal tab bar moves to the left side as a vertical list. To revert: right-click any tab → Turn off vertical tabs. Vertical tabs were a feature you had — tab list along the left side of Edge instead of across … Read more
Quick fix: Right-click any Edge tab → Pin tab. To make pinned tabs reopen automatically on each Edge launch, also enable Settings → Start, home, and new tabs → Open these pages with the tabs’ URLs. Pinned tabs are stored per profile, so they only appear when that profile is active. You use Edge profiles … Read more
Quick fix: Open Edge → Settings → System and performance → Optimize performance → Sleeping tabs. Click Add next to Never put these sites to sleep and add your streaming domains (e.g., youtube.com, twitch.tv, open.spotify.com). Or toggle Sleeping tabs entirely Off. You start a YouTube video, switch to another tab to read something, and the … Read more
Quick fix: Open Edge → Settings → Start, home, and new tabs → set When Edge starts to Open the new tab page, and disable Continue where you left off if present — Edge will no longer auto-restore the previous session after a crash. Edge crashed (or you force-closed it via Task Manager), and now … Read more
Quick fix: Open Settings → Apps → Default apps, find your preferred PDF reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit, etc.) — or scroll down and click Choose defaults by file type, find .pdf, and pick a different app. Every time you double-click a PDF, Edge opens it. You installed Adobe Acrobat Reader, but Edge keeps grabbing … Read more
Quick fix: Disable Edge’s default-browser nag via registry: at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, create DWORD DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled = 0 and DWORD HideFirstRunExperience = 1. Reboot. The prompt stops appearing. Every time Edge updates, every time you open a link, every time Edge starts — it asks if you want to make Edge your default browser. You’ve clicked “No” or … Read more
Quick fix: Right-click any pinned tab → Unpin tab — pinned tabs are the reason Edge restores them on every launch. If you want pinned tabs without auto-restore on launch, set When Edge starts to Open the new tab page; pinned tabs save with the profile but don’t auto-open. You have a few pinned tabs … Read more
Quick fix: Disable the sidebar via Group Policy or registry rather than the Edge UI — Microsoft re-enables the sidebar on most Edge updates, but the policy lock survives all of them. You turn off the Edge sidebar (right-click → Hide sidebar, or Settings → Sidebar → Always show sidebar: Off), close the browser, and … Read more
Quick fix: Install the Custom New Tab URL extension from the Edge Add-ons store and set the URL to about:blank — Edge has no built-in option for a blank new tab, but a one-line extension handles it cleanly. Every new tab in Edge loads the Discover feed: a wall of news headlines, trending topics, sponsored … Read more
Quick fix: Open Edge → Settings → Profiles → Profile preferences. Toggle off Automatic profile switching if Edge picks a wrong profile based on URL. To set a default profile manually, set the work profile to Sign in to work and personal sites separately and pin the desired profile in the profile selector. You click … Read more