How to run Internet Explorer in Windows 11
Posted: 29 Mar 2022 10:37
Microsoft has removed Internet Explorer in the latest releases of Windows 11... Or have they?
Actually after a few days of panic, I understood that they haven't really. What they've changed is that the iexplore.exe program now starts Edge instead of Internet Explorer.
For those of you who have shamefully obsolete company servers that still require Internet Explorer, here's a simple hybrid Batch+Jscript that starts IE11, and optionally opens a URL passed as the first argument:
For example, with that script named ie11.bat in your PATH, run:
Actually after a few days of panic, I understood that they haven't really. What they've changed is that the iexplore.exe program now starts Edge instead of Internet Explorer.
For those of you who have shamefully obsolete company servers that still require Internet Explorer, here's a simple hybrid Batch+Jscript that starts IE11, and optionally opens a URL passed as the first argument:
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@if (@Language == @Batch) @then /* JScript conditional compilation block protecting the batch section */
@cscript //nologo //E:JScript "%~f0" %* & exit /b &:# Batch command that invokes JScript and exits
@end /* End of the JScript conditional compilation block protecting the batch section */
var ie = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application");
if (WScript.Arguments.Length > 0) ie.navigate(WScript.Arguments.item(0));
ie.Visible = true;
WScript.Quit(0);
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