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 write an intermediate page that configures IE that way using javascript and then redirects to the real target URL. I believe you use `window.Externals` to access the toolbars.