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MVP Assistant and Edge Browser

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I recently ran the latest version of the MVP Assistant basically to see what it did. I didn't really need it to solve any issues. However, a few days later while trying to track down a performance issue with my Edge browser, I discovered that MS thinks my browser is now "managed". This in turn disabled some settings in my browser. I tracked this down to MVP Assistant creating a "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" key in the registry to point to a new folder created in "C:\ProgramData\MVP Assistant\WebView2". 

The only setting that "I found" disabled was for "Secure DNS". There may be more. Since I didn't really have a need for the MVP Assistant tool at this time, I deleted the registry key and the "ProgramData\MVP Assistant" folder and rebooted. After the reboot, Edge no longer thought it was managed by an Edge policy and the Secure DNS option returned. 

This post is just FYI.

 

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Bob, thanks for posting this information.

I did a bunch of research on this. Apparently, just having any policy at all for Edge makes it think it's under local management. I did find that the registry change could be made to HKCU or HKLM, although either one was considered an issue for the Edge browser.

Changing the data folder location was imperative because the WebView2 (Edge) control will by default place the data folder in the same location as the executable. If the executable is located where there is no write permission (could happen) then the program would crash. That's why the WebView2 data folder is located in the MVP Assistant's data folder.

Finally, I had to figure out how to accomplish that some other way. I was able to do that. So, my next release will no longer use the registry.

Bruno, glad you figured out another way to resolve the problem. I'll try installing it again when I see your next  release. Happy I could help.