Aqua-Soft ForumsHi there, I know it may be the epitome of laziness, but I would really like to open multiple IE windows in one go, since it's simply too much trouble for me to do it the manual way, hehe! So I was thinking there has to be a simple way of doing that, right? Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure it out yet, so I would really appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.
[Help] How to open multiple Internet Explorer windows simultaneously?
Step:1 http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Step:2........
Step:3 Profit!
Other than that, it may be a command line addon to the shortcut.
Step:1 http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/Step:2........
Step:3 Profit!
Other than that, it may be a command line addon to the shortcut.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that I was looking for a solution that doesn't involve Firefox. I was actually fooling around with creating a .bat-file, without much luck though.
The 'start' command should have some options for simultaneously running tasks from a .bat or .cmd file.
Thanks to liquidplasmaflow for the impetus (however unintenional) to get me started.
cd "C:Program FilesInternet Explorer"
start iexplore.exe
start iexplore.exe
Stick that in a text file and save it with a .bat extension. Make a shortcut to it and run it.
Add extra "start iexplore.exe" lines for each instance you want to start. The code I provided will create two.
It's not the most elegant solution but it works...
-NC
Thanks to liquidplasmaflow for the impetus (however unintenional) to get me started.
cd "C:Program FilesInternet Explorer"
start iexplore.exe
start iexplore.exe
Stick that in a text file and save it with a .bat extension. Make a shortcut to it and run it.
Add extra "start iexplore.exe" lines for each instance you want to start. The code I provided will create two.
It's not the most elegant solution but it works...
-NC
Hehe, that was exactly the "elegant" solution I was fooling around with. But say I want to specifiy the url's to be opened in each IE window as well. How do I do that?
It's very simple to achieve this, just put the website you want after iexplore like this example:
cd "C:Program FilesInternet Explorer"
start iexplore.exe [url]www.bbc.co.uk[/url]
start iexplore.exe [url]www.google.com[/url]
Hope that helps.
P.S. On a sidenote, Firefox can open multiple tabs with websites of your choice when it is started. Not sure why you want to stick with IE but hey...
PPS Can anyone help with my code?
Im trying to run Winamp CD Cover using a batch file but cant get it working, this is what im using
cd "C:Program FilesWinamp CD Case"
start "CD Case.exe"
Cool Zaft, I'll try that out. As for Firefox I have my reasons. Thanks all of you for your help.
@Zaft--if you run that in a command prompt (each individual step), what happens? Does it work properly?
-NC
@Zaft--if you run that in a command prompt (each individual step), what happens? Does it work properly?-NC
It just hangs at the command prompt window and shows "C:Program FilesWinamp CD Case"
In the titlebar it shows "CD Case.exe"
Ive no idea why its not working , im thinking it might be because of the spaces in the name (but theyr already in quotes) or it could be the double directory Program Files into Winamp CD Case.
I remember in DOS using "cd" then "cd.." to enter multiple directories (albeit to play Worms:p), i have searched around Google for a bit with no luck either so im a bit confused.
Anyway the only reason i wanted this was to have a shortcut to easily reactivate my desktop apps when explorer.exe crashes which is rather annoying (avedesk icons, Lclcok and rainmeter die, sometimes the taskbar goes as well :slant: although RK Launcher survives 
)
If anyone has a solution I would be most grateful, it is rather annoying to reactivate all those programs at once.
Ah, I have experience with this. Some programs are run under the command line, even though you want to start them up "normally."
The solution? Don't use the start command. Simply have your code be:
cd "C:Program FilesWinamp CD Case"
"CD Case.exe"
Hope this helps,
-NC
This works , thanks NC. One more thing, the command prompt window stays open after this. Whats the command to close it automatically , if you know?
Thanks again!
Try exit. 
Oh, and if seeing the little black screen pop up doesn't make you feel cool/geeky (), you can use cmdow to hide it. Google "cmdow."
-NC
Thanks NC !
*EDIT * actually you were wrong about the exit command it didn't work.... 
I googled a bit more and found exactly what i was after tho , here's the new code
start "" "C:Program FilesWinamp CD CaseCD Case.exe"
(Note the double quotations after start)
The code also makes the window exit, dunno how or why but it works
Thanks all the same.