How to stop sync in edge?

Anonymous
2022-11-08T10:29:21+00:00

Hi edge experts,

I use a MS account to sign into Microsoft products, but I use only in my laptop system. How to stop sync when not needed?

Thank you,

Nithin. R

Microsoft Edge | Profile, sync, and sign in | Windows 11

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T19:14:14+00:00

    Yeah - total data theft. There is no warning they are going to steal data from your chrome browser. Nor is there any way to get it back.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-18T22:16:29+00:00

    There is NO toggle to actualy stop syncing in Edge. You can select what to sync but that does not stop it.

    To actualy turn off sync for a profile

    1: Open MS Edge while you signed in with MS Account

    2: Type to address bar without " marks: " edge://sync-internals "

    3: Click on: " Disable Sync (Clear Server Data)"

    4: Your profile will show "not syncing", means the deletion was successful. Log out of your profile and tick the box to delete everything, during the logout.

    With this method, all bookmarks, history, passwords, extension etc. were deleted from the cloud and locally as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-27T17:16:32+00:00

    Dear Jen,

    There is no 'Resume sync' button in Windows-11

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-18T14:58:52+00:00

    For those who do not have a registry structure of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, you will need to do the following:

    3. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

    3a. Right click on the Microsoft folder, a pop-up window appears.

    3b. Scroll down to the word "New", slide over to the word "Key" and left click on it.

    3c. This will create a new folder, which needs to be name "Edge".

    3d. Now follow the remaining instructions as Jacek Sandomierz has specified and it will work.

    Thank you, this Edge sync problem was driving me crazy.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-17T00:48:06+00:00

    I have to 'sign-in' for Excel, Word, etc. to work because I have "Microsoft 365". That also signs Edge into the account and starts syncing my favorites without my knowledge.

    I only notice it when my favorites get all screwed up and either aren't sorted alphabetically anymore, or worse, old favorites I deleted reappear. So fed up with Microsoft trying to spy on me.

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