Powershell SendKeys F5 sent to wrong Tab in IE - powershell

Question

I want to make a Script which opens IE with 4 tabs, goes to fullscreen and then switches between the tabs while constantly reloading the pages as soon as they get opened.
add-type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
$ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.Navigate("http://www.microsoft.com")
$ie.Navigate2("http://www.google.com" , 2048)
$ie.Navigate2("http://www.outlook.com" , 2048)
$ie.Navigate2("http://www.vice.com" , 2048)
$ie.Visible = $true
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{F11}{ENTER}")
do
{
start-sleep -Milliseconds 4000
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{F5}{ENTER}")
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('^{TAB}')
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{F5}{ENTER}")
}
While ($i -ne 0)
With this current script, the browser and the tabs open and it also switches between tabs. The Problem is, for example, if it switches to google, microsoft gets refreshed instead of google.
The other problem is, that it doesn't go in to fullscreen. Is the command in the wrong place?
PS: This is my first PS Script

Answer 1

I have not tried the following, but from looking at your code, there are a few things strange:
There's no pause between showing the IE window and trying to make it fullscreen. I'd add that.
You're sending {ENTER} for no reason.
In your loop you first refresh the current tab, then switch tabs, then refresh the new tab. Why?
I'd change the code as follows:
add-type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
$ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.Navigate("http://www.microsoft.com")
$ie.Navigate2("http://www.google.com" , 2048)
$ie.Navigate2("http://www.outlook.com" , 2048)
$ie.Navigate2("http://www.vice.com" , 2048)
$ie.Visible = $true
start-sleep -Milliseconds 1000
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{F11}")
do
{
start-sleep -Milliseconds 4000
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('^{TAB}')
start-sleep -Milliseconds 100
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{F5}")
}
While ($i -ne 0)