Usage of CoGetClassObject, CreateInstance, and relating functions

[tonyb007]

I'm very new to Visual C++ (dropped in at the deepend).

I have a small program that, in simple terms, runs Internet Explorer.

A code snippet that illustrates how it currently works:

	// Obtain an IWebBrowser2 object
	_bstr_t bstrAppName("InternetExplorer.Application");
	CLSIDFromProgID( bstrAppName, &clsid );

	CoCreateInstance( clsid, NULL, CLSCTX_SERVER, IID_IUnknown, (LPVOID*)&pInterface );

	pInterface->QueryInterface( IID_IWebBrowser2, (LPVOID*)&pBrowser );
	pInterface->Release();

Problem is that if a user runs the exe again, it re-uses the IEXPLORE process (visible in Task Manager) thus sharing the environment already in use - you get another IE window but not the new environment.
I believe from reading up that this seems to be default functionality. However, I need it to create a completely separate, individual Internet Explorer process (so that another IEXPLORE process would appear in Task Manager). To achieve this I believe I need to use something like the following but I don't know enough to make it work:

IWebBrowser2           *pBrowser   = NULL;
IClassFactory          *pCF = NULL;
IUnknown               *pInterface = NULL;
DWORD                  g_dwRegister;
	
// Obtain an IWebBrowser2 object
_bstr_t bstrAppName("InternetExplorer.Application");
CLSIDFromProgID( bstrAppName, &clsid );

CoGetClassObject( clsid, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, NULL, IID_IClassFactory, (LPVOID*)&pCF );
CoRegisterClassObject(clsid, (IClassFactory *) pCF, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, REGCLS_MULTI_SEPARATE, &g_dwRegister );
CoCreateInstance( clsid, NULL, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, IID_IWebBrowser2, (VOID**)&pBrowser );
pCF->CreateInstance( NULL, IID_IWebBrowser2, (VOID**)&pBrowser );   //added by tb
pCF->Release();
CoRevokeClassObject (g_dwRegister );

Any help would be much appreciated.
T