How to Create an Edge InPrivate or Chrome Incognito Shortcut

Read this guide to learn how to create a Microsoft Edge InPrivate or Google Chrome Incognito Shortcut.

Option 1: Create an Edge InPrivate Shortcut

1. Right-click a space on your desktop, point to New, and choose Shortcut.

2. Then, on the first page of the Create Shortcut wizard, enter the following code.

"C:Program Files (x86)MicrosoftEdgeApplicationmsedge.exe" -InPrivate

Alternatively, if you want the InPrivate shortcut to open a specific page, for example, portal.azure.com, append the URL at the end of the above code as shown below:

"C:Program Files (x86)MicrosoftEdgeApplicationmsedge.exe" -InPrivate https://portal.azure.com

3. After entering one of the values above, click Next to progress to the final page of the wizard.

4. Finally, enter a name for the shortcut and click Finish.

Once you have created the InPrivate Edge shortcut, you can double-click the shortcut to open Edge in InPrivate mode. If, like me, you included a website to open, the shortcut opens the website.

Option 2: Create a Chrome Incognito Shortcut

1. Follow the steps in the previous section to create a shortcut.
2. Then, on the first page of the Create Shortcut wizard, enter the following code:

"C:Program FilesGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe" -Incognito

Or

"C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe" -Incognito

Like we did with the Edge shortcut, if you want to open a specific page using the shortcut, append the URL as shown below:

"C:Program FilesGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe" -Incognito https://portal.azure.com

3. After entering any of the above values, select Next.

4. After entering any of the above values, choose Next. Finally, enter a name for the shortcut and click Finish.

Conclusion

My job as an Azure Infrastructure Engineer requires me to sign in to different Azure Tenants with different accounts. However, since I’m signed into one of the accounts in my browser, I needed a way to open Azure in Chrome Incognito or Edge InPrivate.

This is necessary as it allows me to sign in to another Azure Tenant with a different account. The traditional way to do this is to open Incognito or InPrivate, then enter the Azure URL.

I figured that this was inefficient and needed a way to make it faster. So, I decided to create a Shortcut that opens the site in Chrome Incognito or Edge InPrivate.

Meanwhile, since this is a useful tool, I decided to share the steps with you, and I hope you found it helpful.

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