Starting with version 90, Microsoft Edge now displays downloads at the top of the window instead of the bottom. If you don't like that, you can bring downloads to the bottom of the window with a shortcut in Windows 10. Here's how.
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Make Edge display file downloads at the bottom of the window
To make Edge display file downloads at the bottom of the browser window in Windows 10, you'll add a parameter to the Edge shortcut on your desktop. Then, when you run Edge with that shortcut, the downloads bar will appear at the bottom, just like it did before.
This method doesn't work for Mac because you can't add shortcut parameters to Mac shortcuts.
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To get started, open the Start menu and search for “Microsoft Edge.” In the search results, right-click “Microsoft Edge” and select “Open file location.”.
A File Explorer window will open. In this window, right-click on “Microsoft Edge” and select “Open file location.”.
A File Explorer window will open containing “msedge.exe.” This is the location of the Edge executable file.
Right-click on “msedge.exe” and select Send to > Desktop (create shortcut). This will create an icon labeled “msedge.exe – Shortcut” on your desktop.
Close the File Explorer window. On your desktop, right-click the newly added shortcut and select “Properties” from the menu.
In the “Properties” window, click the “Shortcut” tab. Then, click the “Target” box, place the cursor after the last quote in the box, and press the Space key.
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Then, type the following in the box:
Save the changes by clicking “Apply” and then “OK” at the bottom of the window.
Your custom Edge desktop shortcut is now ready. Use this shortcut whenever you want Edge to show the downloads panel at the bottom. Your other Edge shortcuts will continue to show the downloads bar at the top.
File downloads with this Edge shortcut will look like this:
To access this shortcut from the Start menu, right-click on the shortcut and select “Pin to Start.” You now have this customized shortcut on the right side of the Start menu.
Similarly, to add this shortcut to the taskbar, right-click on the shortcut and select “Pin to taskbar”.
And that's how you force Edge to return to displaying the original location of the downloads box.
Information source: howtogeek.com
