Win10 uses the registry to close the Edge Browser SmartScreen filter.

  

The SmartScreen Filter is an important feature in the Microsoft Edge browser that detects phishing sites and prevents users from accessing some known malicious websites. However, this function needs to collect the user's online information in order to provide the function of website filtering. Some users do not like this feeling of being stared, so if you want to completely turn off the SmartScreen filter function of the Edge browser in the Win10 system, how to close it What? The following small series teaches everyone to use the registry method to close.

Specific methods are as follows:

1, the search bar Cortana type regedit, and press Enter to enter the registry editor;

2, target: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ Policies \\ Microsoft \\ MicrosoftEdge \\ PhishingFilter, without MicrosoftEdge \\ PhishingFilter under Microsoft, do these two new entries sequentially;

3, the new in PhishingFilter DWORD (32-bit) value, named as EnabledV9, numerical data remains 0;


4, this time to restart the file Explorer can be easily implemented in a cube of soft coal Home shortcut command, so that the browser's SmartScreen Edge It was successfully closed;

5, if you want to open again, you can change the value data of EnabledV9 to 1, or delete this value directly.

It should be noted that although the Edge browser provides the SmartScreen shutdown option in the settings (as shown below), this option actually focuses on download filtering. Using this switch is not completely closed. The table method is relatively clean.

These are Win10 systems approach completely shut down Edge browser SmartScreen Filter, and more ways to close the SmartScreen Filter on we can refer to: "Win10 system how to turn off the filter? Win10 system to close the smartscreen method"

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