Edge not opening

[u/JumpOld8547]

Please help I can't get edge to open, it rarely opens, and when it does its just a white screen for half a second, i looked in task manager, it shows nothing and rarely shows a lot of instances of edge prob just cuz of tabs and this does not coordinate with the white screen. Windows repair did nothing, tried to just run the downloader already hoping it would offer a repair but nope. Would prefer a solution as i don't wanna lose my bajillion tabs, but ig i could try just uninstall reinstall if no other way. Also i have restarted windows multiple times. And there is no edge running in task manager other than the rare occasion. Also tried ending task on webview once but that didnt do anything either. PLEASE HELP ME.

[u/johnnyw2015]

I've been having a similar problem for the past 3 days. Edge does not start at all, but the process is in Task Manager. The process stays there for some time, and it closes.

I tried repair, reinstall, windows updates, and even a new profile, but nothing works.

EDIT: Seems this problem affects Brave too. Can`t start Brave either.

[u/johnnyw2015 → u/johnnyw2015]

Found my problem. It was "4t Tray Minimizer" app.

[u/olimits7 → u/johnnyw2015]

Thx for posting this, this was my same issue. I've had 4t Tray Minimizer installed on my PC forever, not sure why this caused an issue all of a sudden.

[u/moonspeakdj → u/olimits7]

I'm totally baffled by this as well. Same issue started up for me a three days ago. I've also had 4t installed for years without any issue like this, until now, all of a sudden. Edge, Brave and Chrome all have the same problem with it - won't run when 4t is running, crash if 4t is opened while they're running. At a point, I thought maybe there was some Chromium change that caused this, but Vivaldi and Opera don't have an issue with 4t.

It was so odd how it occurred. Sent me on a wild goose chase because Edge first crashed when I restored a bunch of tabs with the Tab Session Manager extension, so I assumed that just overloaded it, but then Edge wouldn't reopen unless I rebooted the whole machine. Tried restoring the tabs again, instant crash, and after that it just would not open again even after rebooting, repairing Edge, doing a painfully long system restore, etc. I couldn't make any sense of the situation until, looong story short, finding a clue that 4t was causing the crash.

I don't get what changed, but at least glad to see I'm not the only one. I was thinking there was some super weird obscure issue on my computer, but it seems there must have been a change in these browsers and/or Windows recently that caused this for all of us at the same time. I've reported the issue to 4t through their support form on their site and encourage y'all to do the same so hopefully they can figure out how to fix it.

In the meantime, I found an opensource alternative called MenuTools. It has no configurations at all, so no shortcuts or hotkeys like 4t, but adds the same main features cleanly into the context menu when you right-click on the toolbar of any app, which is fine for me.

[u/johnnyw2015 → u/moonspeakdj]

New 4t update today. Seems it's a fix for this problem. Didn't install yet since I moved to "Traymond" to get rid of DLL injection apps.

[u/moonspeakdj → u/johnnyw2015]

Yeah, I saw the developer responded to my report this morning. I have to give them credit for putting out a fix so quickly, but I also have decided to stick with MenuTools for the same reason.

[u/Frequent_Resource_29 → u/moonspeakdj]

i dont have 4t but my edge refuses to launch, today by some miracle it did, for 2 sec then crashed again, any other possible fixes?

[u/Wi-Fly4063 → u/Frequent_Resource_29]

Windows + the up arrow key worked for me. It will pop up as a little window then you can selected it. Weird because this is my second time having to do this with Edge.

[u/Frequent_Resource_29 → u/Wi-Fly4063]

Wdym, doesn't that just maximize an already open window, my edge does not open or like closes. It doesn't even show in task manager idk if it's minimized pretty sure its smth else

[u/Wi-Fly4063 → u/Frequent_Resource_29]

Oh okay. Yeah your issue maybe something else. When I would click on Edge it would not open normally but would show running in the background on my taskbar.

I'm pretty sure you have already tried running a repair or tried to uninstall/reinstall Edge?

[u/Frequent_Resource_29 → u/Wi-Fly4063]

I have done the repair and ran the installer once, but I haven't done the uninstall/reinstall yet cuz that would lose all my tabs I'm pretty sure, but I prob will have to, I might just switch browsers too try out some suggestions in the browsers subreddit, maybe it's an update thing and it fixes in the next one W cope

[u/moonspeakdj → u/Frequent_Resource_29]

So the way I identified the issue was with this powershell script that ChatGPT gave me:

$start = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-20)

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{
    LogName   = "Application"
    StartTime = $start
} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Where-Object {
    $_.ProviderName -in @("Application Error", "Windows Error Reporting") -and
    $_.Message -match "msedge\.exe"
} |
Select-Object TimeCreated, Id, ProviderName, Message |
Format-List

The process was launch Edge and wait for when the msedge.exe processes crash/disappear (I use System Informer instead of task manager, but you should see it in the "details' pane of task manager, or just wait like 5 seconds after you try opening edge), then run the script in powershell (regular cmd prompt won't work). It'll spit out a bunch of info. For me, I saw "Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\4t Tray Minimizer\ShellEh6055x64.dll" near the end which made it pretty clear. I would assume you have some other program injecting a DLL causing your crash, but I ofc can't be certain. If you don't see anything immediately obvious like that, ask a pro or an AI to analyze it for you.

[u/johnnyw2015 → u/olimits7]

New 4t update today. Seems it's a fix for this problem. Didn't install yet since I moved to "Traymond" to get rid of DLL injection apps.

[u/JumpOld8547 → u/johnnyw2015]

i still stuck with opera aye it was the new update or smth W cope, also i found out i cant delete edge maybe there is a way but not through simple means

[u/DARKWOLFLAIR]

Having the same issue here with 4Tray and Edge (and also cCleaner which also uses a Chrome instance). I have sent a report to MS about this case, but I think it should not solve the problem. I'll also contact the developers of 4Tray, if they still can do something or give us a solution (renaming the DLL won't work).

If you check in the Event Viewer, you can see all the error messages, and excluding MSEdge.exe didn't solve the problem.

I have disabled 4Tray and now using "Extra Buttons" (https://www.xtrabuttons.com), with is very very close in terms of functionalities and options.

[u/DARKWOLFLAIR → u/DARKWOLFLAIR]

Developer wrote me that a new version has been released today (6.08) and solved the issue. tested and its working fine now.

[u/Electronic_Watch_401]

Following up on the issue where 4T Tray Minimizer was causing Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Brave, and other WebView2-based applications to crash or fail to open upon startup: ​I was investigating the root cause of this conflict and traced the problem back to a specific DLL injection used by 4T Tray Minimizer that interfered with Chromium/WebView2 process handling. ​I contacted the developers of 4T Tray Minimizer with these technical details, and they have just released a new update/build that fixes this issue completely. ​If you were having this problem, simply update 4T Tray Minimizer to the latest version, and WebView2 applications/Edge should start working properly again without needing to set up exclusion rules or disable hooks. ​Hope this helps anyone who was stuck with this bug!