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Open a Web Page in a Windows Batch FIle

I have a batch file that does a bunch of things and at the end needs to open up a web browser to a page. Is there a way to, in essence, call ShellExecute on a http to open the web page?

Windows Command Prompt

Solution

  • You can use the start command to do much the same thing as ShellExecute. For example

     start "" http://www.stackoverflow.com

    This will launch whatever browser is the default browser, so it won't necessarily launch Internet Explorer.