Friday, July 12, 2019

Launch chrome on a windows remote desktop

At work we often need to connect remotely to customer machine to give support. On one of this machines we share a single windows user, which can be connected on several remote desktop session at the same time.

In this situation it could happen that you double click the chrome icon on the desktop and nothing happens.

I tried to search the internet about this problem and find this (useful) link

The problem depends on the fact that we are using the same profile data on several sessions (more or less) and the solution is to launch chrome with several command line parameters.

So I have putted this line:

chrome.exe --user-data-dir=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\%CLIENTNAME%
in a .bat file and created a shortcut on the desktop for it.

Hope it can be useful to someone else!