Question: Is there a method to launch an Internet Explorer window from a desktop Icon such that the Status Bar and tool bar are hidden?

When a user clicks on the icon only the windows form (Maximize, Minimize etc) icons should be present. The URL bar, Toolbar, Status bar should not be present.

Answer: 
How about a VB script, shudder...

```
Dim objIE
Set objIE = WScript.CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application")
ObjIE.Toolbar = false
objIE.Navigate "about:blank"
objIE.Visible = true

```

Save that as ie.vbs
You could create a shortcut to a webpage that uses [javascript to open a new window](http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/met_win_open.asp) without status or toolbars and then close the original window.

```
var newWindow = window.open("http://www.w3schools.com", "", "menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no");
window.close();

```