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Options for opening Edge Full Screen

Recently someone at my company approached me about a system that they essentially use as a display board for their customer service workers. It displays the que on a big screen TV, Apparently we do occasional updates, so this system is logged out or restarted from time to time. For some reason they have it setup where we can only remote in with our admin accounts, but they want to make sure the display board is kept up at almost all times. Up until now, they've been physically going to the system , switching to a monitor in the same room, logging back in, and opening the browser.

I set it up for autologin for the username they created for that computer. I set Edge to run at startup maximized, but I really need full screen, so what are my options?

My first thought was Kiosk Mode, but everything I found says you can only do it with a local account.



  1. --kiosk or --fullscreen Just seem to do what I already have it doing, opening maximized.

  2. If I change that computer to tablet mode, would that basically be the same as simply pressing F11 on Edge? Wouldn't it open full screen?

  3. Is there a script or tool that automatically apply the keyboard command F11?

  4. Is there a setting on Edge that would do this? If I need to go physically change the setting I will

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Hi @Sonic98-2715

Kiosk mode is a good choice for you to start Edge in full screen, especially when you want to set up a display board. You can try the following command-line option example and replace the example domain with your own:

 msedge.exe --kiosk www.contoso.com --edge-kiosk-type=fullscreen

For more information of Microsoft Edge Kiosk Mode, please consult this doc. For more information of Kiosk Mode, please consult this doc.

Additionally, tablet mode just allows you to open Edge in a maximized window.


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Ok it looked like that worked. I guess I needed the full command, but what if I want it to just go to the set homepage instead of specifying?

If I'm putting the system in tablet mode and letting edge run full screen, isn't that basically the same thing? Doesn't everything in tablet mode open full screen like in Windows 8?

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Hi @Sonic98-2715

In my test, if you don't specify a site, you will open Edge in an InPrivate browsing mode. Since you want to go to the set homepage, I suggest you specifying your homepage here.

Full screen in tablet mode is somewhat different from that in Kiosk mode. In tablet mode, you still have a user interface, which includes the address bar, back/forward button, bookmarking menu, etc. And you can close Edge by clicking on the concealed "close" button. However, in Kiosk mode, you won't have any of these except a webpage, and you cannot kill Edge instance unless you use the taskbar or task manager. You can choose to use either of them according to your demand.

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Yeah I couldn't find a way around specifying the address. I just had to figure out a way to do it from the browser short cut, so that's did. Now I have it set to auto login, open edge at startup, and go straight to the needed page.

My only issue now is, I still can't remote into that particular user name. I've seen the page crash before. I'm thinking I'll have to find time to physically go to site and setup one of those auto refresh extensions. I just wonder if the browser will stay full screen, but I guess technically it's working for now

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