How do you create separate shortcuts for different profiles?

The default shortcut has this as a Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Default" I think if I substitute other values for the profile-...

AndyBrunner
Jan 20, 2020
AllanRoss

if I pin Edge to the taskbar I get a shortcut with this command

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Beta\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

open the directory
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\
and check if there are Profile folders called like
Profile 0
Profile 1
etc....
if you need to identify them:
inside these directories you have a file called Preferences
open it with a text editor (i.e. notepad.exe) copy everything into https://jsonbeautifier.org/ click Format/Beautify and then open the profile tree
there you find the name of the Profile associated to your profile folder "Profile x"

IngeborgHawighorst

MVP

r-v-p you say

r-v-p wrote:

USMA56795

Detailed description:

1. open Edge

2. Options

3. Profiles

What do you mean with "Options"?? Where is that? I don't see a command to pin current profile to task bar. Can you post a screenshot?

chris_conley

Brass Contributor

Jan 20, 2022

IngeborgHawighorst: I think he meant Settings.

If you open multiple Profiles at the same time, each one gets an icon in the Taskbar. From there, you can right-click the icon in the Taskbar and select Pin to Taskbar (it should be the bottom-most selection).

Paul Tansey
Brass Contributor
Oct 03, 2023
Best answer here, thank you

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