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i meant out of the ones that i had installed.

which site are you trying to open
if u use

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start iexplore.exe www.something.com
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 3000 >NUL
taskkill /im iexplore.exe
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and save it as a bat file you dont need to have your browser open. it opens then closes and if you change the 3000 number you can have it wait a couple of minutes
it works perfectly

What number would I set that to to have IE open for about five minutes?  I don't know if that 3000 is milliseconds or seconds.

i don't know just experiment 30000 might do it
but it is by far the better way of doing it
btw: you need a copy of taskill if your running xphome

I tried the .bat approach with scheduled tasks.  It works to start the task, but it won't kill IE.  I set the time to 300.  I'm using XP Pro BTW.

Are you trying to access the page to read it? Or are you trying to access the page so that the server will do something, without you actually having to see the page's output?

If your trying to just get the server to do something, use Wget for windows and use a scheduled task to retrieve the page with the -S switch to download and discard the file.

Trying to access the page so the server will do a certain update.

In that case, you can use the method I described. I know it works perfectly for my dynamic DNS clients.

check if you have the program taskkill but it works on my machine it does exactly that opens ie then kills it after the pause
well sorry it didn't work for you