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medeaNP - 18 Jun 2008 22:08 GMT

I recently downloaded IE7, but I can't get the microsoft pop-up page to go
away. I want to get rid of it and go back to my regular homepage when I start
IE. I double checked my IE properties, and my homepage is listed properly.
How do I make the microsoft page go away?

thanks...

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Don Varnau - 18 Jun 2008 22:57 GMT

Hi,
See "Problem: IE always goes to http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx instead
of your homepage" at
http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/troubleshoot.asp
and/or
945385- A blank Web page is displayed when you start Internet Explorer 7:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945385/en-us

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

> I recently downloaded IE7, but I can't get the microsoft pop-up page to go
> away. I want to get rid of it and go back to my regular homepage when I start
> IE. I double checked my IE properties, and my homepage is listed properly.
> How do I make the microsoft page go away?
>
> thanks...

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Jim Cochrane - 24 Jun 2008 08:48 GMT

> Hi,
> See "Problem: IE always goes to http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx instead
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>
> Hope this helps,

It certainly helped me - thanks. The other posts on this topic about
anti-virus/adware/... causing the problem turned out to not apply to my system.

Anyone who has this problem and the "fix/configure anti-... software"
advice doesn't work, this may also be the solution for you.

[In short, the fix is to run this script, after naming it as something
like skiprunonce.reg:]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]

"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001

"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001
]

> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
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>>
>> thanks...

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