Now double-click on the shortcut and you should see a new Incognito window open right up.
Just click Continue and it should update the shortcut without any issues. When you click OK, you might get a UAC warning that you don’t have permission to make the change. “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –incognito Officially, you should put in two dashes, so that is what I have shown here. It’s worth noting that you can either type in a single dash or a double dash and both of them work just fine. Now type in a space followed by –incognito. Click inside the box and move your cursor to the end past the last quote.
The path to the EXE file will be listed in quotes. You should already be on the Shortcut tab where you will see a box called Target. Now go to your desktop and right-click on the Chrome icon and choose Properties. Right-click on chrome.exe, select Send To and then click on Desktop (create shortcut). If you don’t already have a Chrome desktop shortcut, you can create one by browsing to the following path in Explorer:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application In order to do this, you need a working shortcut on the desktop first. In Windows, you have to add what is called a command line argument to the shortcut’s path.
In this article, I’ll show how to create the Incognito desktop shortcut in Windows and OS X. Finally, click the Apply and ok buttons in Figure 8 to save the changes.If you use Incognito mode a lot, however, a good idea might be to create a desktop shortcut that opens Chrome directly to Incognito mode.Instead, select either the Use TLS 1.1 or the Use TLS 1.2 check box. Then, deselect the Use SSL 2.0 and Use SSL 3.0 check boxes.Scroll down the Settings list in the Advanced tab page until you view the Use TLS and Use SSL options.įigure 8 : Enabling TLS and disabling SSL When the Internet Properties dialog appears, select the Advanced tab page therein. Click the Change proxy settings button in that section. Scroll down further until you reach the Network section. This will display more settings in the Settings page.
Then, select the Trusted sites zone and set Medium or Medium-high as its security level (see Figure 6).įigure 6 : Changing the security settings of the Trusted sites zone Then, pick the Local intranet zone and set Medium or Medium-high as its security level (see Figure 5).įigure 5 : Changing the security level of the Local intranet zone Use the slider in the Security level for this zone section to set the security level at Medium or Medium-high.Next, pick Internet from the Select a zone… section (see Figure 4 ).įigure 4 : Changing the security level of the Internet zone When the Internet Properties dialog appears, select the Security tab page therein. Click the Change proxy settings button in that section.įigure 3 : Clicking the Change proxy settings button This will display more settings in the Settings page. Then, click on the link.įigure 2 : Clicking the show advanced settings list Scroll down the Settings page that then appears until you find the Show advanced settings link (see Figure 2). To make these changes, follow the steps below:Ĭlick on the icon in the Chrome tool bar, and select Settings from the menu that pops up (see Figure 1).įigure 1 : Selecting the Settings option from the Chrome menu
Configure the browser to use TLS and not SSL.Įach of these requirements have been detailed in the sub-sections that follow.The security settings should be set to Medium or Medium-High.To be able to use Chrome as the browser for the eG manager, the following pre-requisites should be fulfilled: