I found a site that I thought would be useful on a recurring basis. I placed it on my task bar (Win 11). Later I found the site wasn’t as useful as I had thought so I removed it.
I play quite a bit of solitaire and when a game is finishing up I will move to the lower left hand corner of the task bar and read the insights. As soon as I exit from reading one of the insights the site that I removed from my task bar appears. It always seems to default to M/S Edge although my preferred browser is Chrome.
Anyway I’ve done Google searches trying to figure out how to get rid of this issue and one of the suggestions is to go into the browser and list the apps and then delete the offending app. I go to where the apps are supposedly listed but there are none there to list.
The only time I use M/S Edge is right after I update Windows 11, before I have wrestled control away from the Microsoft Way back to My Way. So I can only a wild guess, but since you say it opens in Edge, and you have a suggestion to remove it from your browser, perhaps in this case the browser to remove it from is Edge.
I’ve never put a web site into the taskbar. Web sites are saved in my browser (Firefox). The most use go on the Bookmark Toolbar, while the rest end up in a Toolbar Menu.
I have two web apps pinned to the Taskbar; this site (http://discussions.fool.com/) and Libby (https://libbyapp.com/shelf) where I read books from three local libraries). Brave (chrome based) is my browser and creates the Brave web apps I pin to the taskbar because of frequent use. You can do same/similar thing in Firefox.
If this is some type of malware, then running a free app like malwarebytes might get rid of the reoccurrence of the information. Do you have Ccleaner? You could reboot your computer and run ccleaner before you open a browser. Then you could also run the ccleaner registry cleaner. Next run the malwarebytes app. Did you remove it from the extensions tab in your browser settings? Just some random thoughts as I have had the same thing happen. HTH…doc
Hey Doc. I’m trying several different things. As Tamhas suggested you can’t delete Edge so I deleted my favorite Chrome. Without thinking there’s a lot that went out the window when I did that. I’ve installed Firefox like 5 minutes ago and trying to get my feet wet with that. I run CCleaner once a month on the 1st and found that although I have Malwarebytes installed it wasn’t running. It’s scan went OK.
I found that Edge has a website blocker so I added the offending website to the blocker and it does the trick but it comes up with this big black screen with a shield in the middle of it and says “This Site Is Blocked”. This is just as annoying as the site I want to block.