Powershell script to start Chrome and more

Question

I need a script that will start Google Chrome and then send a signal for it to go into full screen mode (usually done by hitting f11).

Chrome is installed to the default location.

An example of what I have tried is:

Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome"

This simple string is not even working for me.

Solution 1

Sometimes a temporary folder is needed to get Chrome to start this way, so in those cases this might work.

$pathToChrome = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'
$tempFolder = '--user-data-dir=c:\temp' # pick a temp folder for user data
$startmode = '--start-fullscreen' # '--kiosk' is another option
$startPage = 'https://stackoverflow.com'

Start-Process -FilePath $pathToChrome -ArgumentList $tempFolder, $startmode, $startPage

Solution 2

These types of questions are frowned upon due to you not stating what you have tried and you are just asking for a solution. However since this is simple I couldn't resist. Start-Process {Your full path to chrome.exe}\chrome.exe -ArgumentList '--start-maximized'

Comments

[BA64]

Ok, im sorry, I just created my account to ask this question and did not know this. This is basically what I have already tried but I did not know I had to add the '-ArguementList' part Thanks for the help!

[halfer]

You're right that we like research and prior effort here, but we generally discourage meta-commentary from answers too. Keep answers focussed on answer material, and put advice in comments under the answer.

[user3772108]

This solution solved my problem with starting chrome as a different user (Parameter -Credential). The error message Could not find file was caused because of the missing temp folder argument. Thanks a lot.