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A. Internet Explorer has a kiosk mode which fills the entire screen with no toolbars using:

iexplore -k

This may not be exactly what you want though so you could write a windows scripting host program which starts an IE object with the toolbar disabled:

Dim objIE
Set objIE = WScript.CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application")
ObjIE.Toolbar = false
objIE.Navigate "http://www.savilltech.com"
objIE.Visible = true

If you save the file has ienobar.vbs and then execute with

cscript ienobar.vbs

IE will be started with no toolbars.


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Reader Comments
Thank you so much. I am searchin for this kind of script since morning.

thanks
Sampath

Sampath September 12, 2003


just what I was looking for

Anonymous User January 05, 2005 (Article Rating: )


simple but effective


Anonymous User January 05, 2005 (Article Rating: )


GREAT !!

Anonymous User January 05, 2005 (Article Rating: )


The only side effect is the command window briefly popping up .. anyway to suppress that?

Anonymous User March 08, 2005 (Article Rating: )


Anny idea if I use this to view a page from an autorun CDROM

Anonymous User June 28, 2005 (Article Rating: )


A THOUNSAND THANK YOU's !
JUST what we wanted - spot-on and simple !

Anonymous User August 15, 2005 (Article Rating: )


But still have a problem. once you open the explorer, if you press F11 you return to "maximized" mode (no kiosl) with all menus and buttons (I need to avoide the address bar)

est89 January 13, 2009 (Article Rating: )


Excellent, just what I was after. I wasn't able to change the window title as I thought I could with objIE.Document.title, but it's still got the job done!

tsprince December 07, 2009 (Article Rating: )


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