Here's a simple way you can run Internet Explorer from the command line...

Create a new text file that contains the following line:



Rename the file e.bat

Copy this file to your profile folder



Now you can open a command prompt window and type the following



This will start Internet Explorer and open the URL for www.trap17.com

This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Feb 4 2006, 06:52 PM

If you simply type : http://www.trap17.com It will also work. I would suggest readers to try out text based browsers like Lynx.

Nice Work finding that out but do you think it's really importan to start IE from CMD? i mean you can always just double-click on an icons! Forgive me if i'm wrong but i mean the Command line era is way gone! Get with it and just Click Away!!

I'm really sorry if i've got you all wrong but the way i see it. It's much easier to just click!

Nice idea and finding delivi.. Once used Internet Explorer but now I stoped using it and started using Mozilla FireFox because i like it better.. but nice finding becaus eI have newer seen anything like that

http://www.fixmyxp.com/content/view/20/42

lots and lots of useful things



would probably be a better idea for like games, so that you can open (par example) xfire and cs at the same time, with one click/a few keystrokes.

First of all, this is obvious.
Second, you can just type http://www.trap17.com
Third, you can do the same w/o the http://
To adress what i am apllying to You can use this in bat files for install/unistall scripts
If you have my "ultimate comand prompt utils" package you can type in
internet ie trap17
or if ie is default you can type in internet trap17.com
and if .com is default and you turned on short cmds then you can type in
i trap17 (or the bookmark name such as "i t17"

Yet another thing
For firefox you put
@start /b "firefox.exe" %*

For internet exlorer you only need to put in
@start /b "iexplore.exe" %*

There is a lot more that i can say but i don't have the time to put it all here



This post has been edited by snlildude87: Jan 22 2006, 07:34 PM

I type fater then clicking, and sometimes wehn i write a installation batch file/script i use things like this.

Also note that you only need o create the e.bt file once



This post has been edited by snlildude87: Jan 22 2006, 07:34 PM

Actually when I found this that it would be useful for some programmers who need to start IE from their apps. eg. Displaying CD/DVD contents on Autoplay.




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I've read many of u prefer clicking. But think what will u do when u mouse is eaten by the cat
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You can start anything from the command line. Try going there and typing "mspaint.exe" or "calc.exe" or "notepad.exe" and see what happens. If you want you can open a specific file by adding a space then the file name (the complete path or relative path).