Manual reuse window on launch on a per launch basis

[fleet_captain]

I want to find out how do I launch a URL
on an existing opened IE window... without
actually changing any registry or internet options
or any configurations... I don't want to change
registry because I want to reuse windows only
when I want to.... there seems to be a way to
easily do it... yahoo messenger seems to have
an option in choosing whether to launch a new window
or reuse existing window...

Can someone help me out?
Thanks alot

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Drag and drop (left-click) the link to the window you want to use. But,
rather than resizing several windows, minimize the window you want to use,
drag the link to that window's button on the taskbar (don't drop it yet)
wait for the window to restore, then drag the link into that window and
release it.

Easier to do than to describe. ;-)

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[fleet_captain]

Thanks alot for the tips Don, if I want to script this,
like in a bat file or script file, any tips on how
do I do this? Say I want to run a bat file that
opens www.yahoo.com and www.google.com
but opens www.yahoo.com on a new window while
opening www.google.com on any existing IE window
if available... is there a way to do that?

thanks alot.

Hi,
Drag and drop (left-click) the link to the window you want to use. But,
rather than resizing several windows, minimize the window you want to use,
drag the link to that window's button on the taskbar (don't drop it yet)
wait for the window to restore, then drag the link into that window and
release it.

Easier to do than to describe. ;-)

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

I want to find out how do I launch a URL
on an existing opened IE window... without
actually changing any registry or internet options
or any configurations... I don't want to change
registry because I want to reuse windows only
when I want to.... there seems to be a way to
easily do it... yahoo messenger seems to have
an option in choosing whether to launch a new window
or reuse existing window...

Can someone help me out?
Thanks alot

 

[Viktor Krammer]

Hello,

Say I want to run a bat file that
opens www.yahoo.com and www.google.com
but opens www.yahoo.com on a new window while
opening www.google.com on any existing IE window
if available... is there a way to do that?

I personally do not like that links are opened in existing IE windows, but
to answer your question I would do the following:

1 Enable reuse windows for launching shortcuts in IE
2 Write a shell script that would look like this
start www.google.com
"c:\programs\internet explorer\iexplore.exe www.yahoo.com"
3 Use another script for opening the two links in new windows
"c:\programs\internet explorer\iexplore.exe www.googlecom"
"c:\programs\internet explorer\iexplore.exe www.yahoo.com"

I have written a command-line tool for launching several IE windows at once
with customizable window properties (like position, size, etc.). Maybe this
could also come in handy for you: http://www.quero.at/launcher.php

Viktor