To make a shortcut on Windows open a specific Chrome profile directly instead of showing the profile selection dialog, follow these steps:
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Locate the Chrome shortcut that you want to use for a specific profile.
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Right-click on the shortcut and select "Properties."
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Go to the "Shortcut" tab.
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In the "Target" field, add the following to the existing path after
"chrome.exe":--profile-directory="Profile_Name"For example, if the current path looks like this:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"and you want to open the profile named "Profile 1", change it as follows:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"Make sure to use the exact profile name as it appears in Chrome. By default, profile names might be "Default", "Profile 1", "Profile 2", etc.
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Click "OK" to save the changes.
Now, this shortcut will directly open Chrome with the selected profile, bypassing the profile selection dialog.