
Now, to make the shortcut open Internet Explorer 11 in InPrivate mode, all you need to do is edit the Target link by adding ” -private “. After you create a Desktop screen shortcut for this browser, all you need to do is to right-click on the shortcut then from the options box that would appear, simply hit the option that is found at the bottom which says “Properties” as you can see below.Īfter clicking the “Properties” option, the “Internet Explorer Properties” Window should open and from here, just click on the tab that is found on top which says “Shortcut” and under it, look for the box that is labeled “Target” as highlighted on the screenshot below. Let us start with the phased-out but still available Internet Explorer 11 browser. Adding InPrivate Browsing Desktop Shortcut for Internet Explorer 11 Once you are done creating a shortcut for the browser that you want to directly launch to Private browsing mode on your machine’s Desktop screen, it is time to follow the steps that are shown below depending on the browser that you are using.

If you don’t know yet how to do this, we strongly recommend that you read this article which shows the different ways in creating program shortcuts in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. First Step, Create a Shortcut for the Browser on Your Desktop Screenīefore we discuss the steps in creating a shortcut for Private browsing on your machine’s Desktop screen, you will first need to create a shortcut for the browser itself on the Desktop because that’s where we are going to make the tweaks. Yes! There is a shorter way in launching a Private browsing Window for your favorite browser and that’s what we’re going to show in this tutorial but before that, we encourage that you would first read our previous articlethat shows the longer way in doing this same trick so you can understand why we are doing it in the first place.


This is the main reason why we’ve researched and tried our very best to provide a workaround that will help every user launch this Private browsing modein every browser brand easily and thankfully, with the help of our geeky staff, we were able to find a solution!

Previously, we’ve discussed the different ways in how you can launch Incognito/InPrivate/Private browsing Windows for all the of the major web browsers that are available at present and we’ve have a quite lengthy article because of the process that needs to be followed just to launch one single browser Window with a special feature and function.
