OIE.Navigate 'about:blank' 'put your URL of choice hereĬontrary to popular belief, Internet Explorer is still installed on Windows 11. The easiest way to run Internet Explorer, on Windows 11 (build 22000.348 or higher), is with the following three line script (save as LaunchIE.vbs or similar): Set oIE = CreateObject('InternetExplorer.Application') You can also download the pre-built installer: IELauncher-setup.msi Update (Oct 7 2022): I started working on a fork of 's answer, you can find it here:
hta file to open it (if asked, select 'Open with Microsoft HTML Application Host)Ĭlick the link in the window that will pop up hta file containing the following:ĭouble click the. (select 'Launch new Internet Explorer' and specify an url as 'about:blank' or '' as startup url) I recently found out that you can start Internet Explorer creating a flow on Microsoft Power Automate.Ĭreate an empty flow, then click on 'Browser Automation' and add a 'Launch instance of IE' As the screenshot at the end of the answer shows, Microsoft has dropped support for Internet Explorer!! Because of this, probably these solution will stop working some time in (near) future.Īlso, after the discussion in the comments, I must admit I'm not sure these solutions really work, even now.īut if you still want to try.
