{"id":15141,"date":"2019-10-08T03:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T03:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15141"},"modified":"2019-10-08T03:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T03:15:52","slug":"disable-or-enable-guest-browsing-mode-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/disable-or-enable-guest-browsing-mode-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easy Way to Disable or Enable Guest Browsing Mode in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome&#8217;s guest mode is a nice feature that lets you surf the web without leaving any browsing history or cookies on the computer. You can download files as usual in guest mode, but you cannot add bookmarks or install extensions. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you how to disable or enable guest browsing mode in Chrome for Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Disable or Enable Guest Browsing Mode in Chrome<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the <strong>Windows<\/strong> key + <strong>R<\/strong> keyboard combination to open the Run dialog box. Type in <strong>regedit<\/strong> and hit Enter to open Registry Editor.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/regedit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9183\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the left-hand pane, navigate to <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Google\\Chrome<\/code>. By default, both the &#8220;Google&#8221; and &#8220;Chrome&#8221; keys don&#8217;t exist. You have to create them manually.<\/li>\n<li>While the &#8220;Chrome&#8221; key is selected, right-click on the blank area in the right-hand pane, and create a 32-bit DWORD <strong>BrowserGuestModeEnabled<\/strong> and leave its value data to 0.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/disable-chrome-guest-mode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/disable-chrome-guest-mode.png 555w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/disable-chrome-guest-mode-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Now, you&#8217;ve successfully turned off guest mode in Chrome. Relaunch your Chrome browser and you&#8217;ll unable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-chrome-in-guest-browsing-mode\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">open a Guest windows<\/a> any longer.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-guest-browsing-is-disabled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-guest-browsing-is-disabled.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-guest-browsing-is-disabled-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Whenever you need to force Chrome to always start in guest mode, just open the same registry key and change the value of <strong>BrowserGuestModeEnabled<\/strong> to 1.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BrowserGuestModeEnabled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BrowserGuestModeEnabled.png 333w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BrowserGuestModeEnabled-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to manage the guest mode settings later, just delete the DWORD <strong>BrowserGuestModeEnabled<\/strong> and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome&#8217;s guest mode is a nice feature that lets you surf the web without leaving any browsing history or cookies on the computer. You can download files as usual in guest mode, but you cannot add bookmarks or install extensions. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you how to disable or enable guest browsing mode in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[4347,4345,4346],"class_list":["post-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-chrome-guest-mode","tag-disable-guest-browsing-chrome","tag-turn-off-guest-mode-in-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15148,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions\/15148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}