Browser Friendly Settings - Microsoft Edge
This article gives instructions on how to set "browser friendly" settings on Microsoft Edge to better interact with UWM websites and browser-based applications.
Contents
Reset your clock (EVEN IF your machine displays the correct time!)
Make English (EN-US) the Top Language
Allow Cookies
Delete the Cache
Update Java
Reset your clock (EVEN IF your machine displays the correct time!)
- Click the time at lower right hand corner of the desktop.
- A window will appear entitled Change date and time settings
- Click the Change time zone
- Make sure the time zone is correct for your local time - for Milwaukee, choose (UTC -06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) from the drop-down menu.
- Ensure that the box Automatically adjust for daylight saving changes is checked
- Click OK
- Click Change date and time
- Adjust Date and Time (as close to the minute as possible)
- Click OK
- Click Apply
- Click OK
- Close all open browser windows
Make English (EN-US) the Top Language
- Go to to the computer's Control Panel by either searching in the tool bar or going through the start menu
- Click on Add a Language under the Clock, Languages, Regions section
- Click on the Add a Language button to select English (EN-US) if it's not selected in the list already
- Click on Move Up to make English (EN-US) the top language
- Close out of the window and restart Microsoft Edge
- Browse the internet which should display the preferred languages
Allow Cookies
- Click on the three circle dots at the top of the browser
- Click on Settings
- Scroll down and click on Advanced Settings
- Scroll down until you see a section for Cookies with a dropdown bar
- Click on the dropdown bar and select Don't block Cookies
- Restart the browser
Delete the Cache
- Click on the three dots at the top of the browser
- Click on Settings
- Under Clear Browsing Data, click on Choose What to Clear
- Check the boxes for Browsing History, Cookies and saved website data, Cached data and files
- Click on the Clear button
Another way of doing this is by clicking on the three horizontal bars. Click on the clock with the arrow going counter-clockwise, and select Clear all history.
Update Java
- Go to www.java.com
- Click on the red 'Free Java Download' or 'Download' at the top of the page
- Click on the 'Agree and Start Download' button to download Java
- Install Java following the directions that it provides
- Restart all browser windows