


Oh, and for the Mac people, the roadmap for msedgewebview2 is for it to be on the MacOS platform in the future. It will get reinstalled EVERYTIME that Creative cloud updates or PS gets updated, It's a forced install. This will force kill ALL msedge and msedgewebview2 processesesģ) Delete or rename the directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Microsoft. Because it well get automatically reinstalled by Creative Cloud.ġ) Stop Photoshop and ensure that it is not running.Ģ) Run these 2 commands from a command promptĬ:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe /IM "msedge.exe" /FĬ:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe /IM "msedgewebview2.exe" /F

OK, so here is how to temporarily remove it. Think of this as their new version of Silverlight or Adobe Flash. It DOES NOT get the same security updates that come with Windows update or even the edge browser. EdgeWebview2 is a Microsoft addon that allows developers to incorporate HTML,CSS, and Javascript into their applications, It is based on a version of Chromium from August of 2021 (check the details of msedge.dll. That’s because starting April 1st, 2021, Microsoft will start pushing the Edge WebView2 Runtime (EWR) to Windows PCs running the Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise version 2101 or later.
