Open a Web Page in a Windows Batch FIle
You can use the start command to do much the same thing as ShellExecute. For example
start "" http://www.stackoverflow.comThis will launch whatever browser is the default browser, so won't necessarily launch Internet Explorer.
Unfortunately, the best method to approach this is to use Internet Explorer as it's a browser that is guaranteed to be on Windows based machines. This will also bring compatibility of other users which might have alternative browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera..etc,
start "iexplore.exe" http://www.website.com
When you use the start command to a website it will use the default browser by default but if you want to use a specific browser then use start iexplorer.exe www.website.com
Also you cannot have http:// in the url.