I have a question regarding starting IE from the command line. In the technet
documentation that I can start IE with a "-new" option which forces IE to
start a new process. It seems to me that is the default behavior of IE, which
is to say that if I double click on an IE shortcut it will start a new IE
process regardless if IE is already running. What I would like to be able to
do is force IE to open a new window rather than spawn a new process when a
user clicks on a IE shortcut.

Here are the switches for starting IE:

Startup switches for Internet Explorer
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/10.html
But any start of IE via iexplore.exe will start a new process. If you want
to just open a new window you'll have to create a link using the window.open
scripting method.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536651.aspx
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Jon Kennedy, MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC, USA
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>I have a question regarding starting IE from the command line. In the
>technet
> documentation that I can start IE with a "-new" option which forces IE to
> start a new process. It seems to me that is the default behavior of IE,
> which
> is to say that if I double click on an IE shortcut it will start a new IE
> process regardless if IE is already running. What I would like to be able
> to
> do is force IE to open a new window rather than spawn a new process when a
> user clicks on a IE shortcut.