It is perfectly normal for IE to visit this, or some similar "runonce" URL 
under two circumstances:  immediately after installation of a version 
upgrade, or when checking periodically to see if an upgrade is available.

  Normally, however, two things happen which may not be happening on your 
machine:

1.  A registry key gets updated to record that IE has performed this check, 
so that it does not happen on every launch.

2.  Usually there turns out to be nothing to do, and IE promptly proceeds to 
load the user's specified home page.

  I suspect that the most common cause of failure to update the registry is 
an overly aggressive anti-spyware utility.  But I don't know what could 
cause the second operation to not happen.

David Gillett


On 26 Jun 2007 at 7:56, Barbara Klugo wrote:

> I posted this message previously but did not receive any responses. 
> When I open IE7 I get this URL:
> http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx...  I am running Windows XP Home.
>  It will not open up my home page that I have set in internet
> explorer.  Does anyone have any suggestions how to make this stop
> other than uninstalling IE7. 

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