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Asked: 2026-05-26T22:59:58+00:00

I need to open a webpage using Internet Explorer even if it is not

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I need to open a webpage using Internet Explorer even if it is not the predefined Browser.

(e.g. Chrome is predefined but I want to open www.ThisRunsOnlyOnInternetExplorer.com.

How to achieve this? Of course with ShellExecute I know how to open the default browser.

Of course this must work on all Windows operating systems and all internet explorer versions so I cannot harcode a path to iexplorer.exe.

Can you suggest a solution?

Note: if there is a way to get the path to iexplorer.exe with some API may be the trick is gtet that path and then use ShellExecute to run

PATH_TO_INTERNET_EXPLORER_EXE www.ThisRunsOnlyOnInternetExplorer.com
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  1. Editorial Team

    You don’t need to use a fully qualified path. When IE is installed it registers itself in the App Paths registry. Consequently you just need to send iexplore.exe to ShellExecute().

    Note: CreateProcess() does not use the App Paths mechanism so you must use ShellExecute() rather than CreateProcess().

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