Earlier we covered some tips about the InPrivate feature in Internet Explorer 8. Here is another tip (a registry edit) to start Internet Explorer in InPrivate Browsing mode when the user clicks on the Start menu Internet icon.

Browse in InPrivate mode – Set as default action

Download ie8-sm-inpriv.zip, unzip/extract the contents to a folder. Double-click ie8-sm-inpriv.reg to merge the contents to the registry.

This adds the Browse in InPrivate mode option to the right-click menu of Internet Explorer icon in the Start menu, and sets it as the default action.

More Information

The REG file adds the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Clients \ StartMenuInternet \ IEXPLORE.EXE \ shell \ private \ command

and sets the following command for the (default) value

%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe -private

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4 Comments

  1. John
    said this on Wednesday, March 31st 2010 5:53 pm

    Thanks!!! This registry hack works perfectly on my XP Pro SP3 machine.

  2. Jim
    said this on Wednesday, June 10th 2009 10:12 pm

    THANK YOU for writing and posting this cool script. Microsoft should have implemented this function, themselves. InPrivate should be the default setting.

  3. said this on Monday, June 1st 2009 11:42 am

    @alsiladka: See Enable InPrivate Filtering by Default for all Internet Explorer 8 Sessions:
    http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/enable-inprivate-filtering-default-ie8-sessions/

  4. alsiladka
    said this on Sunday, May 3rd 2009 11:04 am

    Ramesh, is there any way to browse in the normal mode, but configure InPrivate Filtering to be turned ON on every start?

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