Windows 10: Taskbar - Inprivate Browsing Not Working

Hi folks,



Having a bit of a strange issue with Windows 10 Taskbar Jump Lists. I have Internet Explorer/Firefox pinned to the taskbar. If I right click on the icon and select "Start InPrivate Browsing" in IE or "New private window" in Firefox, I get the error "The item you selected is unavailable. It might have been moved, renamed, or removed. Do you want to remove it from the list?", and then the only option to select is "Cancel". InPrivate browsing does work for both however, as I can open Internet Explorer and go to the gear in the top right, then Safety, then "Open InPrivate Browsing", it opens and works great. So just looks to be the taskbar jump list option not working I have tried un-pinning/re-pinning the taskbar icon - no luck


PC - Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2nd Gen

Windows 10 Version 1909 Created bootable USB from Microsoft site ISO and formatted SSD and did clean install of OS. Has only been a few weeks since install, but more than likely has had some updates in that period.


Only a handful of free/paid programs installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus, MalwareFox AntiMalware, AdGuard, Office 2019, VLC, Adobe Reader DC, UTorrent, VirtualBox, Teamviewer.


Any thoughts on what could be causing this?



Thanks!

:)

 

inprivate browsing

Thank you for the feedback, David. Generally, InPrivate browsing will not be active and need to be initiated manually. If
InPrivate browsing opens when you try to launch Internet Explorer, you can try these steps to disable it:

• Right-click on the Internet Explorer icon and click-on
  Properties.
• Under Target, the path should be "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" (with the quotation marks.) If
  -inprivate is suffixed, removed it and click the OK button.

Let us know how it goes.

 

inprivate browsing

Hi Josh,

To better understand your concern about InPrivate browsing, we'd like to know the following:

• If the family safety features of your Microsoft account are turned on. To check if your account is listed as a child's account, you can visit this
  
  link.
• If you have multiple Microsoft accounts.

We look forward to your response.

 

inprivate browsing

Hey Jay Jap,

Everything went according to instructions except there was no choice on inprivate browsing. Thanks for your help. if you have another solutions let me know I really don't like the inprivate browsing. David