We will explain the different ways of migrating your Microsoft Edge Browser from one computer to another one, which might want to do if you are bought a new computer.
The easiest and fastest way to migrate your Edge settings on a different computer is to enable its built in Sync. You can do this by either:
Then go to your other (new?) computer and do the same thing.
Favorites/Bookmarks, Passwords, and History will all be transferred between your two computers in a very nice sync process the is pretty seamless to you.
You can export HKEY_CURRENT_USER > SOFTWARE > MICROSOFT > EDGE > PREFERENCEMACS to a .REG file from your old / source computer and then import it by double clicking on the .REG file on your new computer.
You can also copy C:\Users\<USER NAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data from your old / source computer and then copy to the same location on your new computer.
However, that is relatively difficult, time consuming and does NOT copy your saved passwords.
There are 4 browser settings most people want to copy from one computer to another:
Then do the same but select IMPORT PASSWORDS on the new computer.
Then do the same but select IMPORT FAVORITES on the new computer.
Microsoft Edge stores its history in C:\Users\<USER NAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies or in ….\User Data\PROFILE 1\Network\Cookies
(NOTE: There is no extension to the filename)
Unfortunately, you may not be able to simply transfer this file to your new computer but the HISTORY file is in SQLITE format so you can:
Microsoft Edge stores its cookies in C:\Users\<USER NAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies or in ….\User Data\PROFILE 1\Network\Cookies
(NOTE: There is no extension to the filename)
Unfortunately, you may not be able to simply copy this file to your new computer which is quite annoying. However, the COOKIES file is in SQLITE format and you can:
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is there any software that automate this entire process?