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I need to do upgrade to Windows 10 soon.

I updated to Chromium 109 via chromium.woolyss.com file. Too bad I can’t get Chrome and Edge to do something similar, for one more month.

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Chrome 109 is the last version to support Windows 7 and 8.1 so you should be able to update/install.
The same goes for Edge 109.

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Chrome updated to 109 today. It took more than a few refreshes to initiate an update.

I can’t get Microsoft Edge to update but I did find documentation on setting Edge to a stable version, It uses registry settings.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-update-policies .
You set it to stable, beta, canary or dev . I couldn’t find the registry entry so didn’t change anything.

The program that does the updating is located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe. It is in the 32-bit programs folder.

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Google Chrome

Settings –> Privacy and security –> Safety check –> Check now

It seems to check.

The baddy is Microsoft Edge; still on 108

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@KP (this is my 2nd attempt to post, please forgive if this becomes a duplicate post) I had the same trouble with MS Edge. I put it through 3-4 attempts in a row  (via Help and Feedback, About MS Edge) to initiate update and finally saw a not so obvious button under the warning box to restart or click here. Doing so updated it to vr  109.0.1518.61

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One of my problems was the MalwareBytes Windows Firewall Control. The filter needs to be lowered to Medium. Then it still did not work. If I refreshed it enough times, it probably would have updated similar to Windows 10.

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Microsoft Edge download:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download?form=MA13FJ

Sometimes it’s a do-it-yourself project.

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This manual technique is my preferred method. I usually prefer manual over automatic updates. I even block the MicrosoftEdgeUpdate and GoogleUpdate so I can control the Edge and Chrome updates.

This method downloads and executes the Microsoft Edge Update program. Once I lowered the Firewall Control filter to medium, it updated to Edge 109.

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I found a similar program on the PC at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate

Side note for Google Chrome Update location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update

The trick to using them was, executing them without parameters (I tried using the help parameter, eg. MicrosoftEdgeUpdate /?)

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