I got a question last night about the command line arguments for IE7, I tried searching for it, and only came up with information about IE4, or about installing IE7, both of which don’t really answer the question I was looking for.

Thanks to John Sudds (one of the great programming writers for IE), he sent me a list of the command lines arguments for starting IE7:

-k
Kiosk Mode
-extoff
No Add-ons Mode
-nohome
Skip display of home page (best used with URI argument)
[URI]
Resource location as folder path or Web address

The following aren’t typically used by except when starting IE under some kind of automation (by IE or the COMServer)

-embedding
Application started via OLE Automation, causes IE to start with no chrome or any other UI.
-restart
Application is restarting after crash (informational only).  Starts IE normally
-brokerredirect
Application started by user broker (informational only).  Starts IE normally

The following legacy arguments are completely ignored:

  • -eval
  • -new
  • -nowait
  • -e