Is there vi that can close Windows 7 Internet Explorer?

[AlanSpectrumControls]

Greetings,

I develop LabVIEW executables for internal use. We have a very loose IT policy. When our techs are running my LabVIEW programs, I want Windows 7 Internet Explorer disabled, or closed when the LabVIEW executable is running. I am thinking that there must be a way to have LabVIEW look for any open Internet Explorer Windows, and close them every 10 seconds or so. Any ideas of how to accomplish this?

Thanks, Alan

[Puneet_K]

You can use Web Browser ActiveX object to stop IE browser during your application running.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752085(v=vs.85).aspx

Or

Stop IE Browser Windows  Service.

[smercurio_fc]

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@puneet K wrote:

You can use Web Browser ActiveX object to stop IE browser during your application running.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752085(v=vs.85).aspx

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This will not stop an Internet Explorer that's been launched by the user. It only applies to an embedded IE ActiveX control.

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Stop IE Browser Windows  Service.

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What IE Browser Windows service? There is no such thing.

To OP: You can:

• Use System Exec to kill any currently running iexplore.exe processes using the kill command. Or you could just blindly send this periodically.
• You could use the Windows API Function Utilities (32-bit) for LabVIEW to check if an Internet Explorer window is open (though this may not be robust since it depends on the window name) and then close that window.
• You could uninstall IE.

Of course, this won't stop somebody from using Firefox, or using an app-on-a-stick approach by putting a browser like Firefox or Chrome on a USB stick.

Usually in these cases education goes farther than you trying to prevent somebody from running something like a web browser.