Bing, Microsoft Edge and OneDrive on my PC

[The Mad Monk]

I run a Dell all in one PC. I use Windows and Google Chrome.

Can I - should I - remove Bing, Microsoft Edge and OneDrive from my PC?

[grumbledoak]

Bing isn't really on your PC. Change your browser home page?

You can't completely remove Edge, but you can change the default browser and file associations.

You can disable or remove OneDrive. Make sure you have downloaded all the files first!

[rlg43p]

Since I pay for a family pack of Office 365 it includes 1Tb of storage on OneDrive.

I set up the PC to back up ALL documents, picture etc to OneDrive automatically as a backup approach. OneDrive keeps version history of all of those files.

It's a very easy unattended approach to my backups.

You could do a similar thing with Dropbox or Google Drive but since I use the Microsoft Office applications its the cheapest option.

[butchstewie]

The Mad Monk said:

I run a Dell all in one PC. I use Windows and Google Chrome.

Can I - should I - remove Bing, Microsoft Edge and OneDrive from my PC?

Why?

Knowing why you're asking might help determine the answer

[The Mad Monk]

butchstewie said:

Why?

Knowing why you're asking might help determine the answer

I know little about computers. I thought the fewer things my PC was running, the better.

Not necessarily so? Leave things alone?

Every now and then Bing pops up on my screen - one click and its gone - don't worry about it?

[Mr Penguin]

The Mad Monk said:

I know little about computers. I thought the fewer things my PC was running, the better.

Not necessarily so? Leave things alone?

Every now and then Bing pops up on my screen - one click and its gone - don't worry about it?

Do you use those programs?

[The Mad Monk]

Mr Penguin said:

The Mad Monk said:

I know little about computers. I thought the fewer things my PC was running, the better.

Not necessarily so? Leave things alone?

Every now and then Bing pops up on my screen - one click and its gone - don't worry about it?

Do you use those programs?

Er. Well, Bing is a search engine, similar to Google, isn't it? No. I don't use Bing.

Microsoft Edge is an operating system, similar to Chrome, isn't it? No, I don't use Microsoft edge.

I don't know what OneDrive does.

[butchstewie]

The Mad Monk said:

I know little about computers. I thought the fewer things my PC was running, the better.

Not necessarily so? Leave things alone?

Every now and then Bing pops up on my screen - one click and its gone - don't worry about it?

Respectfully that's an argument for leaving well alone.

You won't get rid of Edge as it's part of Windows.

Bing should just be a web page but I believe some home versions of Windows can have legitimate pop-ups offering to set Bing as your home page and stuff like that.

OneDrive again it depends if you use it but I don't think you'll get some big difference if you try and get rid.

I'd focus on simply keeping things up to date and not clicking or installing anything you shouldn't.

[bigpriest]

Leave them, don't use them and make sure they aren't running at startup. Uninstalling integrated software is a pain. Just watch out when you apply any Windows updates that the default choices for browser, search engine etc. aren't re-set.

[The Mad Monk]

Thank you all for the replies. The consensus seems to be - leave it alone, it it isn't doing anything adverse.