Controlling IE7 functions from a script ??

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Paul - 26 Jun 2007 12:00 GMT

Good afternoon everyone,

I'd like to tell Internet Explorer 7 to delete cookies, form data,
passwords, etc. from a script. Does anyone know how to do this ?

I know this is normally done through "tools" → "internet options" →
"general" tab. However, I'd like to automate this so that the user doesn't
have to worry about doing this periodically.

Thanks for your time and for any help you can provide.

Sincerely,

Paul

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Robert Aldwinckle - 30 Jun 2007 21:46 GMT

> Good afternoon everyone,
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> Thanks for your time and for any help you can provide.

I think my tack would be to try to find out how RIES is started.
E.g. there is probably a program or .dll entrypoint which could
be called as if the user had clicked on the Reset... button.

One way to do this analysis I suspect would be to use DependencyWalker's
Profile option to trace the command: control inetcpl.cpl,,6
and then click the button while the dialog is under DW's control.
It doesn't really matter if it works (e.g. aborts); all you want to know
is what really happens when that button is clicked. Then you could
do the same thing from the command line using (perhaps) rundll32.exe

If you're lucky it will just turn out to be a separate (undocumented?) .exe
In that case you could get that clue simply by running ProcMon instead.

BTW I don't want to do this myself so you'll have to be the guinea pig
or get someone else to try it. ; )

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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Paul - 04 Jul 2007 08:24 GMT

Sorry for the late reply, Robert. I thought that everyone on the group had
forgotten about the post.

I had no idea that this was possible. I didn't even know about the
existence of rundll32.exe ! I ran "inetcpl.cpl" from the "run" box and
immediately got the internet options box. A good start! I also had no idea
of the existence of "dependency walker"! I did some google searches on these
two programs and found some interesting info.

I'll take a look at this. Thanks, this is very useful.

Paul
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