>I am using the ShellExecute api in a VFP Windows application. When a user press a button in my WinForm, I call ShellExecute and pass a URL to open a browser and display the website/page.
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>This works fine except that ShellExecute will use either any open browser to display the page or open the default browser to display the page if a browser isn't open already.
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>Is there a way to force ShellExecute to always open a new browser to display the page and ignore any open browser? Or is there a better way to call IE and pass it a URL to display?
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>Thanks,
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>Jerry

Jerry,

If you use ShellExecut to invoke iexplore.exe directly, passing it the URL as an argument, it will always force creation of a new instance. The path to iexplore.exe can be found in the registry under this key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\IEXPLORE.EXE

Mike