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How do you create separate shortcuts for different profiles?
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"
USMA56795 Hi I can't see a folder named "Edge Dev" in the Edge folder in Microsoft. What to do? Any update I am missing or do I reinstall edge?
- Try the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application". I was running the dev channel when I made my post. The normal release channel uses a directory called "Edge". This allows people to have multiple release channels installed at the same time.
chris_conley I tried this path and although I have two profiles in Edge, it is only showing me one program called msedge.exe
What to do?msedge.exe is the application. To launch that application with a specific profile you need to add a command line parameter that describes which profile you want to launch.
- Right-click the shortcut and select Properties (if you right-click the icon on the taskbar, the 'shortcut' is the third icon up, above "Close window" and "Pin to taskbar" / "Unpin from taskbar"
- Go to the tab called Shortcut
- In the "Target" field, add or update the --profile-directory="[foo]" parameter, where [foo] is the numeric name of your profile, such as the example below.
