Within the Task Manager section Windows 11, and under the Details tab, you will find a large number of processes running. Msedgewebview2.exe is one such process. It is related to the default browser Microsoft Edge.
People recently reported a problem associated with this process. According to them, the process in question is opened even though they haven’t opened the associated Microsoft Edge. The msedgewebview2.exe error that occurs consumes a lot of memory.
As it turns out, the most of the instances where people encounter msedgewebview2.exe unknown hard error has Microsoft Teams and the Widgets app running on their systems. In this article, we will guide you how you can reclaim your memory that is being used by the process in discussion.
Possible fixes for msedgewebview2.exe unknown hard error
Microsoft Edge WebView2 process is responsible for embedding web-pages in your native applications. Widgets app and Microsoft Teams use it for different purposes such as to show you news stories. If you are not an avid user of these apps, the memory usage will go on and end up to the case where the only option would to be reclaiming the memory back.
If you open your Task Manger, you will find different processes running inside. There msedgewebview2.exe process is running too that has been used by those stated applications. There are different ways to control the situation from uninstalling the Microsoft Teams to use the utility to removing the WebVIew2 app. With that being said, let move to the detailed solution.
Fix 1: Close Microsoft Teams and Widgets processes
The very first thing you should start with when encountering msedgewebview2.exe error issues to go ahead and end up the processes associated with Microsoft Teams and Widgets. Remember that this is not a permanent fix and it is for only those users who want a quick workaround:
- Right-click on Windows icon on your taskbar and select Task Manager from the menu appears,
- Go to the Processes tab, and locate Windows Widgets and Microsoft Teams,
- Click on the process and then click the End Task button at the bottom.
Do that for both the applications. Once done, you will see that the msedgewebview2.exe process disappear from the Details tab of the Task Manager.
Fix 2: Stop Microsoft Teams to startup automatically
As said, the previous method is not the permanent fix. The process will automatically back the next time you reboot your system. In order to make sure that the Microsoft Teams won’t startup up automatically, you should disable the Microsoft Teams on startup:
- Open Task Manager (by the same method as we described in the fix 1),
- Go to the Startup tab this time,
- Locate Microsoft Teams in it and highlight it,
- Then, click on Disable button at the bottom to stop it to launch at startup.
Fix 3: Disable Windows Widgets
You should do the same with Windows Widgets if the msedgewebview2.exe error continues. If you use conventional method of removing Windows icon from the taskbar, it will continually runs in the background. Thus, when you perform a restart, the app will be there running in the background. The best solution in that case is to turn it off using Windows Registry:
- Press Win+ R, type in regedit and hit Enter,
- Click Yes on UAC dialogue box appears,
- Now, in the Windows Registry Window, expand HKEY_USERS option,
- Check for the folders named like S-1-5-21-3078088237-2142244905-4044066433-1002,
- If you find multiple such folders, locate the one with Dsh suffix,
- Inside that folder, navigate to:
Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Dsh
- Once you found the Dsh folder, double-click on the IsPrelaunchEnabled key and change the value from O to 1,
- Click Ok to confirm the changes and once done. Restart your device and check if the changes show some effect.
Fix 4: Use any Third Party Utility
If you decided to completely get rid of the Microsoft Edge WebView 2 and the annoying processes, uninstall it completely from your system. The problem is that you can’t uninstall it conventionally through Control Panel or the Windows Settings apps. To perform that action, you will require any third party utility.
Conclusion
That’s all! We have provided all possible fixes for msedgewebview2.exe error or msedgewebview2.exe unknown hard error. Hopefully, these mentioned fixes help you In getting rid of the issue. if not, use we recommend you run a system scan using PC Repair Tool that checks for corrupted and missing files and replace them. This method works when the issue resulted in due to system corruption.
