/GUI-MEU

Primary LanguageC#

GUI-MEU and what it is

GUI-MEU (pronounced Gooey Mew), standing for Graphical User Interface Microsoft Edge Uninstaller, is a simple application which allows for uninstalling Microsoft Edge. Over time, Microsoft have been making it harder and harder to uninstall Edge and this tool aims to make it easy and painless.

Prebuilt Binary (Recommended)

This prebuilt binary is the latest release of GUI-MEU packaged in a neat and handy installer and uninstaller built with NSIS. It's recommended that you use this as it creates a service file which runs GUI-MEU on login, this allows it to check for if Microsoft Edge is installed, if it is, it'll ask you if you would like to uninstall it.

GUI-MEU Installer.exe

Building

  • Dependencies:
    • Visual Studio 2022
      • .Net desktop development module
  1. Clone the repository to a destination of your choosing.
  2. Open the solution file inside (GUI-MEU.sln)
  3. At the top of VS2022, click the dropdown which is set to Debug and select Release
  4. Click Build
  5. Click Build Solution
  6. Navigate to the path of the generated binary and move it to wherever you want to permenantly store it.

Setting Up

The installer takes care of this all by itself, but if built via VS2022 a step is skipped which is responsible for making the executable automatically run on login.

  1. Open Task Scheduler
  2. In the rightmost panel click Crate Task...
  3. Give the task a name
  4. Set to Run only when user is logged on
  5. Tick Run with highest priveleges
  6. Navigate to the Triggers tab
  7. Click New...
  8. Select the At log on option for the Begin the task: dropdown
  9. Click OK
  10. Navigate to the Actions tab
  11. Click New...
  12. Click Browse...
  13. Navigate to where you stored your compiled executable and select it
  14. Click OK
  15. Click OK again
  16. Done. When you login, the process will automatically execute and check for Edge and uninstall it if you want it to.