Explorer Window Management

Hi all -

I'm a a Linux/Perl/PHP programmer and haven't used Visual Basic in nearly 7 years.

I'm trying to create a VB Form that has a configurable list that allows the user to select up to 4 options. The number of options becomes a variable that I want to send to Explorer.

If I send "1", I'd like to open one IE Window in full screen mode, "2" opens split panels with x/y coords calculated. etc.. 4 would open 4 windows - one in each corner.

Basically, my question is, what is the window manager API (so I can look it up) and what areguments does IE accept?

Has anyone ever had to do anything like this?

I'm very sorry if the answers are obvious - my research (google) hasn't really lent me much info except created a browser object inside VB.....

Thanks in advance!!!