On June 15th 2022, absolutely nothing changed in regards to what's installed on Windows 10 or 11. Removing IE does not break HTAs because removing IE does not remove MSHTML. HTAs (HTML Applications) do NOT depend on Internet Explorer, but they use the same MSHTML rendering engine as IE. If you remove Internet Explorer from Windows 10 (via Turn Windows features on or off) or Windows 11 (perhaps by using something like CCleaner) IE Mode will no longer exist in Edge and any applications or scripts, that depend on IE, will break. Killing the iexplore.exe task will kill the web page. When you open a web page in Edge IE Mode, it actually runs Internet Explorer in the background (you will see iexplore.exe in the task list). It is otherwise fully functional, so that legacy applications and scripts, that run IE via COM, will continue to work and so that Edge can provide its 'IE Mode'. That is, attempting to run it in the usual ways (such as double-clicking iexplore.exe) will redirect to Edge instead.

Update: Another option is this small LaunchIE.exeĬontrary to popular belief, Internet Explorer is still installed on Windows 11. OIE.Navigate 'about:blank' 'put your URL of choice here 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.

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