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Open multiple tabs in Internet Explorer 7



Internet Explorer 7 does not support a built-in command to open multiple tabs at startup. Although you can specify multiple URL’s as default homepages, this might not be what you want.
A solution to open several tabs at once for only one time, can be made with Windows Scripting Host, or wscript.

First, create a new text document with Notepad or some other text editor and add the following content:

var navOpenInBackgroundTab = 0x1000;
var oIE = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application");
oIE.Navigate2("http://www.itexperience.net");
oIE.Navigate2("http://www.google.com", navOpenInBackgroundTab);
oIE.Navigate2("http://www.whatismyip.org", navOpenInBackgroundTab);
oIE.Visible = true;

Save the file as launchie7.js (so change the extension from *.txt to *.js) to your C:\ drive

To launch Internet Explorer with multiple tabs, run the following command from Start – Run:

wscript.exe C:\launchie7.js

Of course, if you chose another destination to save your launchie7.js, you should specify that specific path.

4 Comments

  1. Christian says:

    Joe,

    that’s one of the webpages that open when you copy-paste my script. Feel free to change the URL whatismyip.org to http://www.amazon.com if you like :)

    Christian  (Quote)

  2. Joe says:

    Result – what is my IP.?? what’s this!?  (Quote)

  3. Klaus says:

    Yihuu!  (Quote)

  4. ændrük says:

    Thanks! Just what I needed.  (Quote)

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