Comments on: Solve Runonce Page Always Showing in IE7

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:51:29 +0000

@Scott – Firefox does not suffer from the runonce problem, so I assume you are referring to a different problem? Maybe check the Tools menu and select Options and then select Tabs icon. There are a number of settings that control the tab behavior in Firefox, maybe one of them is what is causing your ‘problem’?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:34:45 +0000

I’ve managed to stop it in IE but every time I run Firefox it starts in a separate tab. Any idea how I can stop this?
Cheers

By: Gaz Nim

Gaz Nim — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:51:50 +0000

Also check what your (First Home Page) setting is in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

& Change it to the one you want

Mine was set at the Runonce page so the above fix did not work

I changed it to my normal home page and all is good

By: Chip

Chip — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:41:52 +0000

This worked great :) FYI, I got the issue as a result of removing IE8 Beta and returning to IE7. I had to add the two registry items. The old IE8 items are still in the registry.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:55:19 +0000

@Carrie – The problem you describe is a different problem, not related to RUNONCE. But it is a known issue. To solve it, check if the value of
“Search Page” is “http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54843″. The “Search Page” entry is at the same registry key as the runonce entries.
If this is the value, simply remove it, as that is the link that points to the “getitnow” page.

Kyle

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:19:38 +0000

OK… I tried this, when I went in both of mine already had the 1 value. Everytime I open explorer I get this page that has this info in the bar: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx

You can’t follow the link to get anywhere but it does not automatically go to my selected home page.

Suggestions?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:29:51 +0000

@Melissa – Thanks for the typo correction, I already updated the article.
Regarding the “error on page” problem in IE7, that can have quite a few causes. But the most common ones are Javascript errors on the page, and IE7 corruption errors.
You can try:
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378 to restore the IE7 installation,
OR:
- use Mozilla FireFox instead of IE7.

And thanks for the recommendations!

Kyle

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:12:05 +0000

Hurray it worked except the name is RunOnceComplete per your picture not RunOnceCompleted per the instructions. Now can you tell me why the IE7 gives me “Error on Page” and doesn’t show images? Ie; kmart.com pictures or logging into different sites to create accounts? You’re the best I already reccomended your site to three other people.

Melissa

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:53:36 +0000

@Melissa – If the mentioned values do not exist in the registry, just create them. I should have included that in the article. But i’ll update it with these details.

Kyle

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:58:29 +0000

I tried to get rid of the “runonce” per the above instructions. The rundonce name does not come up in the register like you instructed to do above. It has all but that name? Any other suggestions. I already updated the IE7. and tried all the tricks I found on this site. I also cannot open my user info on the control panel it shows a script error? Including the info about the “error on page” I’m stumped?

Thanks