I work for a charity that refurbishes PC and Laptops that are then given to children who can't afford them.

One of the things we would like to do is add a desktop icon after we install windows that will open Childlines webpage using chrome but in incongnito mode. I remember writing batch script years ago but I am assuming we have moved on somewhat.

What is the best way to do this?

CodePudding user response：

You can create a temp vbs file to do this, launch it and delete the temp vbs file:

(
echo Set oWS = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"^)
echo sLinkFile = "C:\users\public\Desktop\Childline.lnk"
echo Set oLink = oWS.CreateShortcut(sLinkFile^)
echo oLink.TargetPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
echo oLink.Arguments = "-incognito http://sitenamehere.com"
echo oLink.Save
)>create_short.vbs
cscript create_short.vbs

Just update the browser path and website details. Also look at which user profile you need to update. The above focuses on public

CodePudding user response：

If you wanted to do this with a batch script without creating a vbs file, you could also utilize powershell like the following one liner:

if not exist "%userprofile%\Desktop\Chome_Incognito.lnk" %WINDIR%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe /command "$s=(New-Object -COM WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut('%userprofile%\Desktop\Chome_Incognito.lnk');$s.TargetPath='%programfiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe';$s.Arguments=' -incognito http://sitenamehere.com';$s.Save()"

This creates the shortcut on the %userprofile% desktop and points to the Program Files location for Chrome. Adjust that and the sitename URL as needed.