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Launch (Run) Internet Explorer From Command Prompt or Batch File

  • Artikkeli

It is super simple to launch IE from a command prompt.  But hey, if you do not know how, it may not be so easy to find.  Went looking online for the answer and was surprised it was not a well documented process.  So here is the process.

You actually have to launch the executable and you can use the address as the first parameter.

 

On my system it would look like this…

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" www.itproguru.com

Notice the quotes in the path… This is required due to having spaces in the path names

if on a 64 bit OS and want to run Internet Explorer in x86 mode just change the path like this…

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" www.itproguru.com

Run Internet Explorer (IE) from Command Prompt or Batch File

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I was stuck on getting a specific URL to open, never would have thought it was so simple. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2012
    The Simplest way is @Start iexplore with this you don't need to know it it is a 32 bit or 64 bit os

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2014
    Really superb....

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2014
    Not working on win 8

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2014
    Not working on win 8

  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2014
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2014
    With win 8,you have to run as admin

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2014
    With win 8,you have to run as admin

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2015
    I tried the code but I guess since I have firefox as my default browser it opens a tab on my current session. Is there a way to open up IE 11? I also specifically wrote the IE.exe

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2015
    hi, can you pls let me know how to open Internet Explore with Different user name and password.
    It should not asked user name password again n again

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2015
    Most complicated windows OS 10 ever generated created. no wonder it is free. Most of my friends have dumped it

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2015
    Most complicated windows OS 10 ever generated created. no wonder it is free. Most of my friends have dumped it

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2015
    From MDT, the command hangs with a little yellow tooltip that has a URL for setting the default browser.

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2015
    For something which always works, on every machine, with any path, I do this: First, type explorer.exe Then, in the file path of Win Explorer, type a URL such as www.google.com This will open IE

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2015
    wow

  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2015
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2016
    KrojamSoft FilesSearch Tool helped me in this case.