Open IE in New Window? (Command Line)

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Hey,

We’ve got a bit of an issue. We need to figure out how to force IE to open in a new window, when it’s from a desktop shortcut (ie: command line).

Yeah, I know, for everyone out there it does this by default, but we’re working with a different set of tools here, and this set of tools sets it so that IE links open in the same window.

We need to force it to be a new window, process, whatever.

Help?

J

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Is this for an application which you want to distribute or a question about a IE setting? In the latter case …

Tools - Internet Options - Advanced - Reuse windows for launching shortcuts

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c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore.exe “http://www.site.com/”
^^ I had to do the old-school ~1 thing to get around the space issue in the program files and internet explorer directories.

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drzoid: In this case, we’re running one application (an IE app) inside a Citrix environment. For that shortcut, we need to pass it a parameter to tell it to open in a new window, because Citrix-deployed IE instances are opened in a CURRENT window by default…

So if a user tries to open 2 Citrix-enabled IE apps, they overwrite each other, normally to disastrous effects.

Vinnie: I think that’s jus ta normal shortcut, right? Not one that specifically opens in a new window? Or am I wrong?

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Opens a new instance of IE for me (I had 2 IE windows open and this one opened a 3rd window).

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Yeah, it does that by default in NON Citrix environments… Trying to figure out a way to force it … more…

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try iexplore -new

Found the info at this site: http://appdeploy.com/tips/ie-cls.shtml