How would I create a shortcut to open a *new* browser?

[Stan Shankman]

Greetings all,



I want to make a shortcut to put in my quick-launch menu.

When I click on it, I want it to open a *new instance* of the browser.

(As opposed to having it take over an existing instance.)

How do I do that?



Thanks all,



- Stan Shankman

 

[Alan Edwards]

Have you tried just making a shortcut?
I did nothing fancy and my shortcut to iexplore.exe in the QLB always
makes a new instance.

....Alan

 

[Stan Shankman]

Alan,

Thanks for reading and answering my post.

But maybe I should be more specific:
I want to create a shortcut (in the quick-launch menu) that will open a site
of *my choice* and do so in a new instance of IE.
I do not want that site to be the default site. i.e. not the 'Home Page'.
How would I do this?

But I know what you mean. And in fact some of my shorcuts do open new
instances, and others do not. I want to learn what the difference is, and
how to create such shortcuts to my hearts content.

Thanks,

- Stan Shankman

 

[Alan Edwards]

Hi Stan,

I just created a shortcut with a target to a specific page:
(one line but may wrap at the space after .exe")

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
http://dts-l.org/index.html

It opens every time in a new instance.

When you say "some of my shortcuts do open new instances", are you
talking about other applications rather than iexplore.exe?
Whether an application opens a new instance or not can depend on the
application. Some allow it and some do not. Some have switches or
preferences for that and some do not.
You cannot expect all applications to obey the same rules, I am
afraid.

....Alan

 

[Stan Shankman]

Alan,

I'm not getting your last suggestion to work. (By the way, I'm running
Windows 2000.)

In doing what you claim works, I find that if I go to an existing shortcut
in the quick-launch menu, right-click on that shortcut and choose
'properties", I can then select the 'Web Document' tab. That tab shows a
textbox called "URL", it is in there that I place, as an example, the
following text:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
http://dts-l.org/index.html

But then when I attempt to launch that shortcut, it does not take me to the
expected site.
It dose, however, open a new instance of iexplore - but with an unobtainable
address.
What is more, if I go back and look at the 'URL' textbox, I notice that it
has changed. It now reads:

http://"c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe"
http://dts-l.org/index.html


I think you are on the right track. What is needed is to point to the URL to
the program of choice (in this case iexplore), but it seems that I (we?)
have still not mastered the process of feeding arguments to that program.

What do you think?

- Stan Shankman

 

[Alan Edwards]

I don't have an installation of Win2K but I have XP, 98 and ME in
front of me at the moment and I have no idea what a 'Web Document' tab
is or why you would select it. I have never seen a tab like that but I
don't see it is the way to go. It is not a Web Document I want you to
create. It is a shortcut to a web page.

Can you avoid using such an animal?
It doesn't seem to bear any relation to a shortcut as I know it.

Try a slightly different tack.
Create that shortcut (as I did) on the desktop.
Ensure it works before dragging it to the QLB

....Alan

 

[Alan Edwards]

Hi Stan,

I now see where the confusion lay and where you find the Web Document
tab.
Yes, I was referring to a Shortcut (*.LNK) while you were referring to
an Internet Shortcut (*.URL)

....Alan