After having this problem with our second computer and reading all the suggested solutions, I found a very simple solution. When first opening explorer, it will go to a site something like http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=XXXXX, where X is a string of numbers. Close explorer. Then go to start-all programs-accessories-system tools-internet explorer(no add-ons). This opens explorer in a new window. Enter the address that explorer first tries to access, and enter. Voile! The set up site should appear where you can set the defaults, and problem solved! No need to add, delete, adjust any registry values or change any program settings. The problem apparently is caused by an add-on, such as an active-X control or something, which I haven't found, but IE now goes right to the home page.

Being semi-computer literate I tried this after my runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx simply remained that certain shade of blue... It took a second or two of "connecting" and although it appeared to load nothing appeared on the screen. If you have this problem, try clicking anywhere on the blue screen and then click CTRL+A (ie or edit / select all) and then open Word or similar word processor. Paste into it and you'll see the page come up... no idea why this is so, but now you can see what should have loaded, albeit not layed out the same way. The first link is for editing the settings. If you cannot double click it to go to a browser window, right click instead and select edit hyper link or edit url link depending on your software. The link (java..etc) appears and cut & paste this into the browser window. In my case this brought the correct page up. I selected my options and saved them. After the closing & opening of IE7 I was back to my good ol' goggle.co.uk home page ;-).

Hope it works for some.

Thank YOu Very much This was the easiest solution for us that do not know a lot about registry thank you!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by rabanito172: Dec 31 2006, 08:55 PM

Search for about:blank in the registry and replace it with your default startpage like http://www.google.de!

THX from Germany!

Hey Friends!! I Just navigated to this forum in search for the answer to this problem, and FOUND IT!! Thanks for your knowledge..
Artaban... form Venezuela..

Hello All,

I registered to this site in hopes of fixing the IE problem with runonce. I tried to edit the Registry but I dont have the RUNONCE VALUE when I go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER - SOFTWARE - MICROSOFT - IE - MAIN

Is there a reason why RUNONCECOMPLETE isnt listed?

You can disable this (and other) settings using the group policy editor as well.

can anyone help me?

look 2 posts up

This post has been edited by Burne201: May 26 2007, 11:48 AM

downloded the ie7 beta from microsoft and got runounce.msn for the home page went to change it to my homepage and got 4 trojun dialers was able to delete 3 and finally had to format and reinstall windows how do i get rid of this anoing thing?

Beta? Are you sure you got it from Microsoft? The final code is out for quite some time now (but in order to download it from Microsoft one needs to pass the WGA test )

I had to create both the RunOnceHasShown & the RunOnceComplete Dword values (set to 1) and this annoying problem was solved. Thanks everyone!

thank you !

but , before setting
RunOnceHasShown & the RunOnceComplete Dword values to 1

i need 2 more tweaks :
1. keep the default searching provider
2. check the antiphishing box

where are theese keys in registry ?

hi,

i would like to post a same situation although there are plenty of ways to solve in your posts but i tried some of it but still have not fix yet.
just wanted to ask clearly my problem.

problem:
1. my home page always starts with this url
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx

2. when i open a new tab and already set it opening a home page, the "welcome to tabbed browsing still always open even thou i check the "dont show this page again"

tried to disable the protection homepage from norton

3. i tried to change a new default search provider but everytime i click a new search provider it does not respond

i thought the norton is responsible for this problem
hope i can find answer in this topic, tnx

im using windows xp home sp2, 60 gb, 1.7 ghz, 448mb, toshiba satellite laptop, norton protection 2006 with internet security

Thanx, this is the right solution!

I had the same problem and it turned out that it kept going to the runonce page because the security settings were way too tight. Usually I set admin accounts Internet zone to "High".

My problem is the run once page always comes up.I check the boxes for my settings and hit apply settings..and it say's "Applying Settings" and just sit's there and never finishes.

I did this and it worked!!! Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!!!!!

Download this .reg file "unzip it to desktop" click on it and it will take away the agravating hijacker.

http://flashwrkz.com/downloads/RunOnceDone.rar

This worked for me. I have a brand new HP laptop with vista and it keeps coming up to the runonce screen, with an HTTP Error timed out or something like that.

Adding the two DWORDS above fixed my problem.

Thanks,
Phil

Play around in my Registry? Sorry guys, that, in my view is that this a Geeks solution.

The runonce problem came up yesterday when I "upgraded" my wife's PC to IE7. It was quickly fixed by going back to the previous day's System Restore point, i.e back to IE6. QED!!

However, there is an even better solution, which is to dump Internet Explorer and to use the much more reliable Firefox browser - this is installed on my other PC's and there is no way I am going to use IE unless some application demands it.