how can i make IE open to several different pages on startup?

Question

on startup i would like internet explorer to launch three windows.

one that opens to the yahoo home page
one that opens to the devry home page
one that opens to the sirius satelite radio home page

is there any way that i can do this?

sharpguy, both methods worked great! thanks.

...is there a way to control the size and position of the windows when they launch from the batch file? currently all three launch at the same size pretty much righ on top of each other. i would like for them to fill up the entire screen without overlapping.

Answer 1

Create shortcuts, drag the shortcuts to your startup folder

Answer 2

Sure, just add them to your Favorites first. Then open favorites, right click it and copy. Now right click on your Start button, choose Open. Now click on Programs, then click on Startup folder. Right click and paste the file there (something.url will be the filename). Do the same for the other two websites. You're all set now. But this only works when the computer first starts.

Want to be able to make those 3 launch at anytime by clicking one thing? Just copy and paste all 3 favorite files (something.url) in a folder (maybe create c:\temp and put it there).
The something.url might be very long named, so rename it to something easy like 1.url, 2.url and 3.url

Now open up notepad and type this: Yes, each one goes on a new line (note the first line, just change to the folder you saved the .url files to):

cd \temp
1.url
2.url
3.url

Now click File, Save As, and save it as: choose any filename and end it with .bat (ie launch.bat).

Make sure you type "launch.bat" when saving (yes do add the quotation marks too). This means save it literally as what it sees in the quotation marks. If you dont' use quotations, then your file might look like launch.bat.txt (but even if that happens, just rename it to launch.bat

Now create a shortcut on desktop (right click desktop, create New Shortcut). Point it to the .bat file. Now whenever you double click the .bat file, it will execute each line in it, line one would be change directory to the folder where the .url files are located. Line 2 says launch 1.url (which would be your first favorites location, etc.

Answer 3

I'm not sure that you can have 3 different websites open up, but it might be possible. Add a sceduled task and have it run upon startup on every logon. To do this click start, control pannel, preformance and matinence, sceduled tasks, add a sceduled task, then internet explorer. Do it 3 times for it to oen 3 times. hope this helps, brodster

Answer 4

Install IE7 and set it up to use 3 home pages then set them up accordingly.. As far as I know IE7 is the only one that does this.

Answer 5

don't be lazy any type them in the address