I have tried the following:
$edge = New-Object -com microsoft-edge.application
$edge.visible = $true
$edge.FullScreen = $true
But I get error:
New-Object : Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} failed
due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from
HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
At line:1 char:9
+ $edge = New-Object -com microsoft-edge.application
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [New-Object], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoCOMClassIdentified,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand
Am I doing something obviously wrong here?
Edit 17/07/2019 - I have changed to below:
$edge = Start-Process -FilePath ($Env:WinDir + "\explorer.exe")
-ArgumentList
"shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge"
$edge.visible = $true
$edge.FullScreen = $true
So now Edge opens but the Visible and Fullscreen commands return errors - anyone have any ideas?
Cheers
I think this might be the solution:
start microsoft-edge:http://google.com
$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;
$wshell.AppActivate('Google - Microsoft Edge')
Sleep 2
$wshell.SendKeys('{F11}')
I found the above code here:start microsoft edge in fullscreen
You can send edge different keys depending on what you want: How to send CTRL or ALT + any other key?
You could find the key shortcut to whatever you want to do to the Edge window.
You could try this(source is link below):
Start-Process -FilePath ($Env:WinDir + "\explorer.exe") -ArgumentList "shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge"
There is also a way to open it in Incognito Mode:
You could use the following command to open Microsoft Edge browser and navigate to the special URL.
start microsoft-edge:http://google.com
Edit:
If you want to use Edge Webdriver to open IE browser, you could download the Edge webdriver from this link, and refer to this article to use it.
The existing answers may work for some environments, BUT they are not guaranteed since they use the alias
start
instead of theStart-Process
command directly.
It is best to use the command directly in scripts.
Open Edge full screen:
Start-Process microsoft-edge: -WindowStyle maximized
Explanation
The Start-Process
command is executed on microsoft-edge, with the argument -WindowStyle
set to maximized. This will open edge and maximize it to full screen.
Open Edge full screen AND navigate to specified webpage:
Start-Process microsoft-edge:https://stackoverflow.com -WindowStyle maximized
Explanation
Like before, the Start-Process
command is executed on microsoft-edge and the :
specifies to open https://stackoverflow.com. The argument -WindowStyle
set to maximized will full screen Edge and load stackoverflow.com.
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