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Microsoft Edge closes immediately upon opening. I've tried many fixes none work.

Yesterday, I wanted to clean up my favorites in Edge (remove duplicates, remove obsolete links). In the midst of this, Edge closed without warning or error message. When I restarted Edge, it closed immediately. I could not select the three dots in the top right. It closed too quickly.

I found several possible solutions including tools in the Settings/Apps menu, other fixes involving removing and then reinstituting the %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe directory

None of these fixes worked.

When I restart Edge, it closes immediately.

How can I get it to work properly?

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Hi. I'm David, and I'm happy to help you.

Repair Microsoft Edge as instructed below:
1. Open Start and select "Settings > Apps > Apps & features";
2. Look for Microsoft Edge and select it;
3. Select the "Modify" button;
4. At the confirmation screen, select "Repair".

See if MS Edge will open stable.

Feel free to ask back any questions.

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No. This didn't help. I've tried many possible fixes (SFC /scannow), disk clean.up, etc.) nothing worked.

I'll have to use Chrome...

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We have several users where Edge (v116.0.1938.69) starts and immediately crashes. The only thing that helps is deleting all the files in the following folder:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Sync Data\LevelDB

After deleting the files in this folder Edge starts without a problem.

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This worked for me just now. Thank you. I thought I'd fixed it once, but started again today. I'll keep a note for this solution going forward.

FYI, I had to go into Task Manager and end the Microsoft Edge processes before I could delete the files in the folder you listed.

Donna

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Update last night on 11/6/2023; today, Edge Opens and immediately shuts down. Repair does not help! None of the prescribed solitions work...

1) C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Sync Data\LevelDB

2) nothing running in task manager

3) Repair - Reinstall

Anywhere else to look?

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Same issue began this morning after I performed a Windows 11 update.

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Opened Edge this evening, completed a bit of online banking with my bank and closed Edge as usual. Five minutes later it was exhibiting the "close immediately" problem and none of the actions described above have had any effect on fixing it.

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Same here and all my favorites disappears.

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I now have the same problem but now also I can't see App Data folder under user.

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No it didn't.

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