Silverlight Edge

Silverlight was the primary development environment for Windows Phone (that is by now discontinued) and is based on Silverlight 4. For previous versions of Windows Mobile, the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Windows Mobile 6 was expected in the second quarter of 2008, but it still has not been officially announced. Mar 24, 2021 In fact, the option to even enable Silverlight in Chrome was removed by Google in September of 2015. Yet some Silverlight content remains on the internet. Those who want to display it using the web’s most popular web browser are at a loss. But not a complete loss. It is still possible to use Silverlight in Chrome on Windows 10 with a free.

Symptoms

When working with Microsoft Silverlight you may encounter the following scenarios:

Install Microsoft Silverlight
Upgrade to another version of Microsoft Silverlight
Uninstall Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight does not work as expected

Attempts to restart the computer and try to upgrade, install or uninstall Microsoft Silverlight again end in the same results.

Cause

This issue can occur if an existing installation or uninstall has become corrupt.

Resolution

To automatically uninstall Microsoft Silverlight, click the button in the 'Fix it for me' section. If you would rather verify and update these keys yourself, go to the 'Let me fix it myself' section.

Fix it for me

Note This wizard may be in English only. However, the automatic fix also works for other language versions of Windows.
Note If you are not currently using the computer that is experiencing this problem, you can save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD, and then you can run it later on the computer in question.
When the Fix it solution has completed, click the link below to install the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight:

http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx

Let me fix it myself

To resolve this issue yourself, follow these steps:

Click Start and type Notepad in the Search box
Double-click on Notepad from the list of results above
Copy and then paste the following text into Notepad.
Click File and Save As and type CleanSilverlight.cmd
In the Save astype box, click All Files (*.*)
In the Save in box, click Desktop, and then click Save
On the File menu, click Exit
Right-click the CleanSilverlight.cmd file on your desktop and click Run as administrator
When the uninstall completes, right-click the CleanSilverlight.cmd file on your desktop and click Run as administrator a second time
Once the uninstall has completed, click the link below to install the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx
Delete the CleanSilverlight.cmd file from your desktop.

More Information

Microsoft Community
Have other questions? To obtain free support, check out our Microsoft Community. There, you can search for answers or ask other users specific questions. Click the following link to visit the Microsoft Community Forums: http://answers.microsoft.com
Questions specific to Silverlight

There are couple of ways to check if Microsoft Silverlight is installed on your Windows computer. This post explains both the methods with examples.

Programs and Features console

This console shows all installed software on your system and also features available on your Windows installation that you can enable as add-on. You can look for Microsoft Silverlight among the listed items, sort the list by name column so that you can quickly look it up. On my windows box, it shows up as below.