Another odd IE 7 issues seems to be plaguing many of my client workstations. For some reason, upon launching IE7 the user is greeted with the following error:
“An HTTP error occurred while getting:
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx
Details: “connect timed out”. ”
It turns out that the error is the result of a default behavior which can be changed manually. Upon startup, IE is directed to the RunOnce page. To manually change this behavior and skip the RunOnce redirection import the following into your system registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]“RunOnceHasShown”=dword:00000001
“RunOnceComplete”=dword:00000001
See Microsoft KB article 945385 for more details.
