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Launch Internet Explorer 7 in a new process without toolbars

Answer 1

+1 A:

You can use a HTML Application like:

<html>
<head>
<title>Stack Overflow</title>
<hta:application showintaskbar="yes" singleinstance="no" sysmenu="yes" scroll="no"
icon="http://www.stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico"&gt;
<style type="text/css">
* { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
iframe { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<IFRAME SRC="http://www.stackoverflow.com/" APPLICATION="no">
</body>
</html>

However, this tends to mess up the JS of whatever page is in there without special precautions for HTA.

MiffTheFox 2009-06-16 20:48:10

Thanks for the suggestion but when I tried this I had problems with the JavaScript on my page (most of which I can't even touch).

Everett Toews 2009-06-17 23:50:03

Answer 2

A:

You can do this by manipulating the IE COM server. It's easy to do in powershell:

$ie = new-object -COM InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.ToolBar = $false
$ie.StatusBar = $false
$ie.Navigate2( "http://www.stackoverflow.com" )
$ie.Visible = $true

If that was in ie-app.ps1, then your shortcut would have "powershell -command ie-app.ps1" to invoke it.

This is essentially the same thing that you did with Windows Scripting Host in vbscript. You can use anything that can manipulate the InternetExplorer.Application COM object. I have IE8 and it may be just the difference between IE7 amd IE8 but with my powershell example, I get two processes.

Brian Reiter 2009-06-16 21:07:16

Thanks for the suggestion but when I try this with Windows XP and IE7 I still only get 1 process.

Everett Toews 2009-06-17 18:23:30

Answer 3

+1 A:

You don't specify what coding regime you wish to use to accomplish this, but you will undoubtedly want to look into the WebBrowser Class.

Ishmael 2009-06-16 21:09:48

I didn't specify the technology because I'm open to any solution (edited post).

Everett Toews 2009-06-17 01:51:47

Answer 4

+1 A:

None of the other answers worked out for me so here is a vb script I cobbled together from various sources (I'm not a vb scripter).

On Error Resume Next

AppURL = "http://www.stackoverflow.com"
AppToRun = "iexplore about:blank"
AboutBlankTitle = "Blank Page"
LoadingMessage = "Loading stackoverflow..."
ErrorMessage = "An error occurred while loading stackoverflow.  Please close the Internet Explorer with Blank Page and try again.  If the problem continues please contact IT."
EmptyTitle = ""

'Launch Internet Explorer in a separate process as a minimized window so we don't see the toolbars disappearing
dim WshShell
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run AppToRun, 6

dim objShell
dim objShellWindows

set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
set objShellWindows = objShell.Windows

dim ieStarted
ieStarted = false

dim ieError
ieError = false

dim seconds
seconds = 0

while (not ieStarted) and (not ieError) and (seconds < 30)

    if (not objShellWindows is nothing) then
     dim objIE
     dim IE

     'For each IE object
     for each objIE in objShellWindows

      if (not objIE is nothing) then

       if isObject(objIE.Document) then
        set IE = objIE.Document

        'For each IE object that isn't an activex control
        if VarType(IE) = 8 then

         if IE.title = EmptyTitle then
          if Err.Number = 0 then
           IE.Write LoadingMessage

           objIE.ToolBar = 0
           objIE.StatusBar = 1
           objIE.Navigate2 AppURL

           ieStarted = true
          else
           'To see the full error comment out On Error Resume Next on line 1
           MsgBox ErrorMessage
           Err.Clear

           ieError = true

           Exit For
          end if
         end if
        end if
       end if
      end if

      set IE = nothing
      set objIE = nothing
     Next
    end if

    WScript.sleep 1000
    seconds = seconds + 1
wend

set objShellWindows = nothing
set objShell = nothing

'Activate the IE window and restore it
success = WshShell.AppActivate(AboutBlankTitle)

if success then 
    WshShell.sendkeys "% r"  'restore 
end if

I'm open to any improvements or suggestions.

Everett Toews 2009-06-18 01:15:11

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