Problems When You Use Internet Explorer as Your Windows User Interface or as a Startup Program in Terminal Services

When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer as your user interface as described in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 143164, or you use Internet Explorer as a startup program in a Remote Desktop or Terminal Services client environment, the following behaviors may occur:

• Mapped network drives do not update correctly when you use the following command:
  Iexplore.exe -e
• A new window opens when you locate a target window or when you submit a form in Internet Explorer.

For additional information about how to use Internet Explorer as your Windows shell, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

This behavior occurs because some features that Internet Explorer uses only function when Windows Explorer (Explorer.exe) is running.

To work around this behavior, do not replace Windows Explorer with Internet Explorer as your Windows user interface. Instead, run Internet Explorer as a startup program in Windows Explorer, and then use Group Policy or Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) to limit access to Windows Explorer.

For more information about Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK), visit the following Microsoft Internet Explorer Web site:For more information about Group Policy, visit the following MSDN Web Site:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.