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USMA56795
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Aug 22, 2019

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-...
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    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"

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chris_conley
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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.
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Frtitzer
Copper Contributor
Feb 06, 2021

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? 

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    chris_conley
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 07, 2021

    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.

    1. 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"
    2. Go to the tab called Shortcut
    3. 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.

     

     
     

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