Solve Runonce Page Always Showing in IE7

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  1. Kyle says:

    @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’?

  2. Scott says:

    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

  3. Gaz Nim says:

    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

  4. Chip says:

    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.

  5. Kyle says:

    @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

  6. Carrie says:

    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?

  7. Kyle says:

    @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

  8. Melissa says:

    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

  9. Kyle says:

    @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

  10. Melissa says:

    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

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