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March 23, 2000 12:00 AM

How can I start Internet Explorer without the toolbars?

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A. Internet Explorer has a kiosk mode which fills the entire screen with no toolbars using:

iexplore -k

This may not be exactly what you want though so you could write a windows scripting host program which starts an IE object with the toolbar disabled:

Dim objIE<br>
Set objIE = WScript.CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application")<br>
ObjIE.Toolbar = false<br>
objIE.Navigate "http://www.savilltech.com"<br>
objIE.Visible = true

If you save the file has ienobar.vbs and then execute with

cscript ienobar.vbs

IE will be started with no toolbars.


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Comments
  • Sam
    3 years ago
    Dec 07, 2009

    Excellent, just what I was after. I wasn't able to change the window title as I thought I could with objIE.Document.title, but it's still got the job done!

  • Ermesto
    3 years ago
    Jan 13, 2009

    But still have a problem. once you open the explorer, if you press F11 you return to "maximized" mode (no kiosl) with all menus and buttons (I need to avoide the address bar)

  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Aug 15, 2005

    A THOUNSAND THANK YOU's !
    JUST what we wanted - spot-on and simple !

  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Jun 28, 2005

    Anny idea if I use this to view a page from an autorun CDROM

  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Mar 08, 2005

    The only side effect is the command window briefly popping up .. anyway to suppress that?

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