Microsoft refuses to let you do that, but you can fool them
Share onMicrosoft continues to do everything they can to get you on Edge and the search engine Bing, but forcing customers usually never works.
MSEdgeRedirect cheats on all versions of Windows 11
Instead, you get more resistance and irritation, at least from people who know that it really should not be like that and that there are alternatives.
As we wrote yesterday, Microsoft has introduced a search box in the latest Windows 11 dev version, a search box that opens Bing and Edge.
Fortunately, MSEdgeRedirect has been upgraded to work (Microsoft changed things so that EdgeDeflector stopped working) with all versions of Windows, including the dev version (and the new search box), and all other versions of Windows where you may be struggling to open Edge if you apply from e.g. the start menu or other parts of the OS.
The program allows you to simply choose a browser because there is not much to ask for:
