Win10 Tips: Completely Shut Down Edge Browser SmartScreen Filter

Win10 Built-in Edge Browser contains one of the important features of Internet Explorer SmartScreen Filter, a feature that helps users avoid access to known malicious websites. However, this feature of "providing the past" is inevitably suspected of collecting user information, because it can provide you with website screening, because SmartScreen needs to collect records of all users accessing all websites, for some users. Said, this feeling is like being on the Internet and being stared at.

Of course, Microsoft is not going to tell anyone about the various "unable to describe" websites. Still, you may still not want Microsoft to know about it. This is very simple, don't let it know from now on. To completely turn off SmartScreen, just add a registry value, as follows:

1. Enter regedit in the Cortana search bar and press Enter to enter the Registry Editor

2 Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\MicrosoftEdge\\PhishingFilter

Note: If there is no MicrosoftEdge\\PhishingFilter under Microsoft, create these two items in turn (above)

3, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value in PhishingFilter, named EnabledV9, the value data remains 0, as shown below ——

Restart now File Explorer, Edge's SmartScreen is successfully closed. If you want to open it again, you can change the value data of EnabledV9 to 1, or delete this value directly.

It should be noted that although the Edge browser provides the SmartScreen shutdown option in the settings (above), this option actually focuses on download filtering, and using this switch is not completely closed. The above registry method is relatively clean.