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How to find the Internet Explorer binary

September 1, 2004 Sep 1, 2004 09/1/04

Raymond Chen

For some reason, some people go to enormous lengths to locate the Internet Explorer binary so they can launch it with some options. The way to do this is not to do it. If you just pass "IEXPLORE.EXE" to the ShellExecute function [link fixed 9:41am], it will go find Internet Explorer and run it. ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "iexplore.exe...