# Command to open windows program?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 28, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/command-to-open-windows-program/11599 "2016-04-28T16:17:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_newb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@the\_newb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/the_newb)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/command-to-open-windows-program/11599/1 "2016-04-28T16:17:36Z")

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I’m using the system.net.openURL command to go to the site of an IP camera.  
The problem that I have is that opens the URL through the default browser… I can only use Internet Explorer for this system.

Is there a system.??? command to open up IE, then go to the URL?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/command-to-open-windows-program/11599/2 "2016-04-29T10:43:13Z")

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In this instance, you can use subprocess.Popen()

This example opens Dropbox’s website on my Win10 machine:

`import subprocess
subprocess.Popen(["C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe", "http://www.dropbox.com"])`  
Hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![the\_newb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@the\_newb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/the_newb)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/command-to-open-windows-program/11599/3 "2016-05-03T20:36:17Z")

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Perfect! Thanks a lot!