Fix Internet Explorer Defaults to runonce3.aspx Page at Every Start

Fix Internet Explorer Defaults to runonce3.Aspx Page at Every Start

When you open Internet Explorer 7, it may default to runonce2.aspx or runonce3.aspx (Customize Your Settings) page. When saving the custom settings, a script error displaying Element not found message appears.

Microsoft issues a workaround for this problem in article Q945385, which says to create the RunOnceHasShown and RunOnceComplete registry values manually. While this can prevent the runonce3.aspx page from coming up the next time, the real question is why Internet Explorer is unable to successfully write the settings to the registry in some systems?

Resolution

While working on this issue, I found that the problem is caused due to incorrect data in the following key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ TypeLib \ {EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B} \ 1.1 \ 0 \ win32

The (default) value should be set to C:\Windows\System32\ieframe.dll

The above problem occurs if the value data is pointing to module shdocvw.dll, which also causes the following problems in Internet Explorer 7:

Registry Fix

Download ie7tlbfix.zip, unzip the archive and run the file ie7tlbfix.reg.

This should solve all of the above problems in Internet Explorer 7.

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12 Responses to “Fix Internet Explorer Defaults to runonce3.Aspx Page at Every Start”

marcel

said this on Monday, April 20th 2009 11:54 pm

didn’t do anything for me same problem even after the zip file above
NesTheKing

said this on Monday, April 13th 2009 11:43 pm

Thank you very much. It is so simple :)

By the way, John; when I set it manually c:\windows\system32\ieframe.dll it did not work but when I double click the
ie7tlbfix.reg
then it became
%systemroot%\system32\ieframe.dll
After these operations it will show the runonce2 or 3 page but this time when you click Save the settings button it will work :)

Thanks again.
Mark

said this on Monday, April 6th 2009 2:58 pm

I had this problem after installing then uninstalling I.E. 8.0
I added the registry key values;
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value “RunOnceHasShown”=dword:00000001
Value “RunOnceComplete”=dword:00000001

This fixed it.
I still have the key;
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B}\1.1\win32
(Default)=string”C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHDOCVW.DLL”
Souniman

said this on Wednesday, March 25th 2009 4:14 pm

Works like a dream many thanks
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said this on Sunday, March 1st 2009 2:04 pm

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Anonymous

said this on Friday, January 30th 2009 12:44 pm

Excellent!!! It worked fine, Internet Explorer default is not runonce3.Aspx page anymore, and i have changed my search provider to google.
Nicolás

said this on Monday, January 26th 2009 4:18 pm

Thanks you for your help. I’ve this problem for a month and it is very difficult to find the solution.
I’ve solved partially the problem with the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945385 but the some Javascripts error persists (ie google search) and wasn’t impossible to add new search providers.
The change in the registry key solves the problem perfectly.

Yours sincerely

Nicolás
L.G.

said this on Sunday, January 18th 2009 9:42 pm

I reset my IE7 and encountered the above issue. After I ran the fix, I opened IE7 and was able to save my settings as well as add google to be my default search which was something that never worked before. Until now I didn’t realize it was related to the same problem.
Thank you.
john

said this on Thursday, January 8th 2009 8:02 pm

This does not work. The default is already c:\windows\system32\ieframe.dll but the problem persists.
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

said this on Friday, December 19th 2008 11:08 am

Great, thanks.

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