Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Method 1. This opens the Run dialog window.
This method may seem complicated, but it's really the most straightforward way to accomplish this task on a Windows 10 or 8. You can also use this on other versions of Windows 8 and 10, but if you have a Professional or Enterprise edition, check out the Using the Group Policy Editor method. Type regedit and click OK. This opens the registry editor. Use the tree on the left to navigate. Although you'll already see a key in here called "MicrosoftEdge," you actually need to create another one.
Here's how: Right-click the Microsoft folder in the left panel. A menu will expand. Type Edge and press Enter. Click the new Edge key. This selects the key. Double-click AllowDeletingBrowserHistory to open the editor. If you don't see a zero under "Value data," enter one now and click OK.
Open Microsoft Edge. If Edge was already open, close all open windows and then restart it so the changes will take effect. Now that you've edited the registry, the option to delete the user's browser history will no longer be available. Here's how you can test this: Click the three dots at the top-right corner of Edge and select Settings. Click the Privacy, search, and services tab in the left panel. On the right panel, scroll down to "Clear browsing data" and click the Choose what to clear button.
You will now see padlock icons next to "Browser history" and "Download history. As long as your registry changes remain, the history cannot be deleted. Re-allow deleting the browsing history. If you share the computer with others, you may want to re-enable deletion of your browsing history at some point.
Fortunately, now that you've created a registry key, it'll be easy to toggle between allowing and denying deletion. Double-click the AllowDeletingBrowserHistory entry in the right panel.
Replace the "0" with a "1" and click OK. Method 2. Download the latest administrative templates for your version of Edge. Click the Get Policy Files link. Save the ". Also, if you don't have 7-Zip installed, you'll need it to decompress the CAB. Decompress the files. Click the Extract button in the toolbar. Choose a location to extract the file inside to and click OK. Go to the newly-compressed file, which is called MicrosoftEdgePolicyTemplates. Usually the settings aren't that useful to home users and are actully a hinderance many times as a lot of malware sets them but there are a few that some people use like the one I listed above.
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