From: mayayana on

> If possible, would
> you please look into another problem in this discussion group:
> why IE is shown when navigating a HTTPS URL in VBS script on windows7
>

Sorry, but I don't know much about that, or I would
have answered it. I've never worked on an intranet,
and I try to avoid updating to any Microsoft product
that was released after about 2000. In general the
products have become less secure, more complex,
and wildly bloated. (I have Win7 RC on a test PC for
testing software, but it's not on a network.)

In the case of IE, Microsoft has
gradually blocked functions that work well with script
but might be security risks. At the same time the IE
security settings have become so convlouted as to be
nearly unusable.
If I were you I would research what has changed in IE8.
Maybe there's something you can do. Alternatively, since
you don't need to show IE anyway, maybe you could
use another method to do what you want? It used to
be possible to make IE show offscreen by doing something
like setting the Left property to 3,000, but I think that's
one of the functions that is now blocked.




From: Shucheng Liu on
I'll try it. Thank you.

"mayayana" wrote:

>
> > If possible, would
> > you please look into another problem in this discussion group:
> > why IE is shown when navigating a HTTPS URL in VBS script on windows7
> >
>
> Sorry, but I don't know much about that, or I would
> have answered it. I've never worked on an intranet,
> and I try to avoid updating to any Microsoft product
> that was released after about 2000. In general the
> products have become less secure, more complex,
> and wildly bloated. (I have Win7 RC on a test PC for
> testing software, but it's not on a network.)
>
> In the case of IE, Microsoft has
> gradually blocked functions that work well with script
> but might be security risks. At the same time the IE
> security settings have become so convlouted as to be
> nearly unusable.
> If I were you I would research what has changed in IE8.
> Maybe there's something you can do. Alternatively, since
> you don't need to show IE anyway, maybe you could
> use another method to do what you want? It used to
> be possible to make IE show offscreen by doing something
> like setting the Left property to 3,000, but I think that's
> one of the functions that is now blocked.
>
>
>
>
> .
>