IE10 Reported as "Already Running" When Its Not

I use this piece of code, inside a bat (placed at the root of the TestComplete project)



[kill_IE.bat]



taskkill /f /im "iexplore.exe"

start /MAX iexplore.exe



then call it every time I need to start IE like this:



function kill_internet_explorer()

{

  // Obtains the path to the current project

  var Path;

  var ficheiro = "kill_IE.bat";  

  Path = Project.Path;  

  Path += ficheiro;

 

  var objShell = new ActiveXObject("shell.application");        

  objShell.ShellExecute(ficheiro, "", "Path", "open", 1);

 

  Delay(2000);

}