How to Disable the About: Flags Page on Edge Browser

How to Disable the About: Flags Page on Edge Browser covers the essential facts behind the topic, including what changed, why it mattered, and how it affected users.

The about: flags page on Edge browser is used to tweak options and enable or disable experience features, for example you can enable TCP Fast Open.

Disable the About: Flags Page on Edge Browser

1. First close all tabs on Edge browser.

2. Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows + R key combination to open the Run window, then enter regedit and press Enter. If the UAC window appears, click Yes to continue.

3. On the Registry Edoitor window, navigate to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftMicrosoftEdgeMain

Note:

If any key does not exist, you can proceed to create the key.

4. In the right frame, proceed to create a 32-bit DWORD value, then name this value PreventAccessToAboutFlagsInMicrosoftEdge and set the value in the Value data frame to 1.

Note:

If you use a 64-bit version of Windows, you can still create a 32-bit DWORD value.

5. Finally open Edge browser and try opening the about: flags page, you will notice that this page has been disabled.

In case if you want to restore the original default settings, you can simply delete the value PreventAccessToAboutFlagsInMicrosoftEdge and then restart the Edge browser.

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Good luck!