Using Microsoft Edge as a Humanforce Kiosk

by James McDonald | Jul 7, 2026 | IT Tips | 0 comments

So I changed from using Chrome as a Kiosk for Humanforce clocking to using Edge (because who wants to install another browser when Edge is also Chromium based)

This is the command I run in a shell:startup batch file to get a full screen session of Edge which will hold the settings and allow pressing F11 to get out of full screen mode

@START "Humanforce Kiosk" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe " --profile-directory=Default --start-fullscreen https://myclient.humanforce.com

One problem I came across was I kept launching Edge using my batch file and it keep going into the normal window mode showing the location bar instead of full screen. To actually get the --start-fullscreen option to stick I had to go into settings and search for "boot" and disable Startup Boot

--kiosk disables F11 to exit full screen

adding --profile-directory=Default and --kiosk stops it using an inPrivate session, but you loose the ability to exit fullscreen with F11

but adding --edge-kiosk-type=fullscreen makes it always use an inPrivate session so you can't use any save settings each session forgets it's cookies

@echo off
@ECHO Humanforce Program files Loading. Please be patient.......
@call timeout /t 3 /nobreak > nul
@START "Humanforce Kiosk" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe " --profile-directory=Default --start-fullscreen https://myclient.humanforce.com

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