MS Windows 10 Edge Live tiles system cache - windows-10

Question

I've changed paths (polling uri's) to XML with data but Windows still requests the old one xml url.
I was updating xml url in the following steps:
Turn live tiles off
Unpin tile
MS Edge browser cache and history clearing
Delete all content within C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_randomized_hash/LocalState/PinnedTiles
Delete file iconcache.db inside C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local
Disk Cleanup
So I start MS Edge again and pin tiles to start menu. Then I see that Windows still requests the old xml path via server logs.
How to update it? There must be some system cache I suppose ...
I've spent a lot of time and would appreciate any advice!

Answer 1

Microsoft Support replied to my question. So the reason was MS Edge cache.
These steps helped me, I hope it'll help someone else.
Please try the below steps to reset the edge browser and check. Please
know that resetting the Microsoft edge will remove your bookmarks and
History. Follow the instruction provided below and check.
a. Navigate to the location:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe
b. Delete everything in this folder.
c. Type Windows Powershell in search box.
d. Right click on Windows Powershell and select Run as administrator.
e. Copy and paste the following command.
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach
{Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" –Verbose}

Answer 2

The above worked for me. However, I have since discovered that after unpinning the tile/s you don't want, you can simply just delete the unrequired tile folder/s here: C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\PinnedTiles

Answer 3

Not to hijack the topic, but if you'd like to see all your bookmarks/favorites, here's a starter powershell script to give you that information.
You'll need the Newtonsoft.Json.dll
cls;
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Users\<YOUR USER FOLDER>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Newtonsoft.Json.dll") |Out-Null;
$source = "C:\Users\<YOUR USER FOLDER>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\RoamingState";
$filter = "{*}.json";
$files = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $source -filter $filter -File;
foreach ($f in $files)
{
$json = Get-Content -Path $f.FullName
$result = [Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert]::DeserializeObject($json);
$result.Title.ToString()
$result.URL.ToString()
}