How To Change Default Download Options In Microsoft Edge

Changing Default Download Options In Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge has a few options while downloading files like choose where the files are saved, and change whether or not Edge asks you what you’d like to do with a file each time you try to download. Here’s how to change the default download options in Microsoft Edge:

How to choose a location to save files downloaded in Edge?

When you click a file to download in Edge, it will save to the Downloads folder by default. If you’d like to save files to a folder other than Downloads, you can change the location to save them. Here’s how to proceed for that.

Step 1: Launch Edge from your Start menu, desktop, or taskbar.

Step 2: Click the More button located at the top-right corner of the window and looks like “•••”.

Step 3: Tap on “Settings”.

Step 4: Click “View advanced settings”. You might have to scroll down to find it.

Step 5: Then tap on “Change”.

Step 6: Click on the folder where you’d like to save the files.

Step 7: Click “Select Folder”.

Step 8: Click on the More button again to close the menu.

How to enable and disable download queries?

You’re downloading a plenty of files and saving all them in the same location. Or you simply don’t want to be asked for the location to save a file each time you click a download link. You can set Edge to not ask you what you’d like to do with a file.

Below is the stepwise procedure to disable the query.

Step 1: Launch Edge from your Start menu, desktop, or taskbar.

Step 2: Click the More button located near the top-right corner of the window and looks like “•••”.

Step 3: Click on “Settings”.

Step 4: Scroll down a bit and click on “View advanced settings”.

Step 5: Click the switch beneath Ask me what to do with each download so that it turns gray. Click it again so that it turns blue to turn it back on.

Step 6: Click the More button to close the menu.

Now you won’t get those queries whenever you download a link. After disabling, the file will download to the folder that you set as soon as you click the download link.

If you leave download queries enabled, a small frame will pop up at the bottom of Edge that asks if you’d like to Save, Save as, or Cancel. This is how the download options in Microsoft Edge are enabled and disabled.