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Run command for Internet explorer

Internet explorer (IE) can be opened from Run command by executing iexplore.

If you want to open a website or web page directly from Run window, you can just specify the URL of the site/page with the iexplore command. For example, to open ‘www.windows-commandline.com’, you can execute the below command from Run window.

iexplore www.windows-commandline.com

These commands work with all versions of Internet explorer.

To open internet explorer from command prompt

c:>start iexplore

Running iexplore without start would fail with the below error.

C:\>iexplore
'iexplore' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Srini

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