After I made an in-place upgrade of Windows 10,
I decided to remove all subfolders whose name start with Edge
from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
.
1
This means I also deleted the EdgeWebView
directory.
Then I changed my mind and wanted to reinstall the WebView2 Runtime,
so I went to
the download section of the WebView2 home page.
In the leftmost part, I downloaded the Evergreen Bootstrapper.
But when I double-clicked it to reinstall WebView2, I got an error message in my local language. Translating into English, it says something like :
The installation failed. Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime has already been installed on this system.
This question is closely related to How to uninstall Microsoft Edge WebView2
References
- How to perform an in-place upgrade
- The download section of the WebView2 home page
- How to uninstall Microsoft Edge WebView2
1 Although there are differences between Windows 10 and Windows 11, there are also a lot of similarities. That's why I've chosen to also include the windows-11 tag. Of course, this means that I welcome solutions also for Windows 11 – even if they haven't been tried for Windows 10 specifically.