Policy
Enable Process Isolation
Microsoft Edge
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows7
This policy controls Process Isolation in Microsoft Edge. When this policy is enabled, Microsoft Edge uses Process Isolation to help improve browser security by preventing authorized applications on the device from reading or modifying the contents of Microsoft Edge's running processes. This also helps prevent other applications from accessing encrypted data used by Microsoft Edge. Enabling Process Isolation may cause incompatibilities with third party applications that rely on being able to inject or tamper with Microsoft Edge's processes, such as antivirus, screen reader or window manager applications. Setting the policy to Enabled turns on process isolation in Microsoft Edge. Setting the policy to Disabled turns off process isolation in Microsoft Edge. If this policy is unset, Microsoft Edge will follow the default rollout process for the Process Isolation feature, which means that the feature will be gradually rolled out to an increasing number of users. Note: This policy is applied when Microsoft Edge starts. If the policy is changed while Microsoft Edge is running, the new setting will take effect on the next restart.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge Value name ProcessIsolationEnabled | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 HKCU 1 | HKLM 0 HKCU 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.