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Microsoft Edge Browser - Windows 10

With many people upgrading to Windows 10, or purchasing new computers with Windows 10 pre-installed, I have heard many complaints from clients about Microsoft's new web browser, Edge. Seems the problems with Edge is it's more secure than old Internet Explorer. While security is important, many sites that use Microsoft's ActiveX or Java will fail to work with Microsoft Edge.

It is possible to reconfigure Edge to work with ActiveX websites but there is a much easier solution. Internet Explorer still exists in Windows 10 and it will work with your older websites that still use ActiveX. Unfortunately, Microsoft has made finding Internet Explorer in Windows 10 a little tricky.

If you click on the Cortana Search field, just to the right of the Start button, and type "Internet Explorer", it will show as a Desktop app. Right-click on this and you can choose "Pin to Taskbar". Now the old familiar Internet Explorer icon will appear somewhere to the right of your Start button.

Click on this new icon and Internet Explorer 11 will open. I know, not very exciting but if you have a website that relies on ActiveX, this is one way to get Windows 10 to co-operate.

Of course, if you just hate Edge and don't want to make the switch to Chrome or Firefox, use this method to revert back to Internet Explorer 11.

I included a couple images to help show the process.