Update:
As it turns out the page that wasn’t working (runonce) is now working and one of the settings that they recommend is the cleartype setting. If the page had worked in the first place I may never have had the fuzzy screen problem. Either way, I recommend not selecting clear type if you have a CRT (non-flat-screen) monitor.

I am soo not happy with IE7 right now. I’ve spent some time on the beta and have looked at some of the previous sites I’ve worked, and they look like hell.

Granted there are conditionals now that I can include in order to “fix” css styles for the many variations of IE but it just bloody sucks that though IE is now trying to catch up with standards and still blowing.

Or it could be that I’m soo tired, it’s 2am and I’m still hung up on how painful it is to style for IE.

Is there a fix for IE7 defaulting to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005, and hanging up?
I have to disable my Norton Firewall to get internet access…..not comfortable with this!
I don’t know if there’s a setting I can change to rectify this or what.

Yesterday I innocently loaded Explorer 7. My computer was down the entire day until my husband told me I could do a restore.

None of my software worked and when I tried to go on the Internet it didn’t go to my homepage but was constantly trying to load “go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=74005″

Same issue homepage constantly trying to load “go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkId=74005″ can not access the internet. Will try to restore? Amazing a year later and this comes back to haunt us.

Has anyone really fixed this problem yet? I had to format my pc to fix other problems, and 4 hours later I now have this. What the heck is going on and how do I fix it??? I love the navigation of IE7 (the tabs are genius) GRRRRR

I was having the problem noted by Levi Cooperman above (Everytime I startup IE7, instead of going to my home page…its trying to load up: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005, ).

So I used IE7’s troubleshooter and found that I was able to connect to the internet, my email was fine, and also I was able to use Netscape to go my homepage and the internet. As a result, after reading the above messages and unsuccessfully fiddling around with my IE7 settings, I concluded the problem was probably in my FIREWALL (F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security).

So I went into that, chose “Internet shield,” then “Advanced,” then “Application Control” (which lists the permissions for all applications) and saw that somehow, the permission for “explorer.exe” (IE7) was set at “DENY”. So I clicked “explorer.exe,” then “Details,” then I changed the permission for “explorer,” to “ALLOW” and clicked “OK.” Then EI7 worked. (At the outset, I may have also clicked on “Virus and Spy Protection,” then “Advanced,” and “Browser control” and unlocked my IE7 settings. But after finishing I relocked my IE7 settings.)

In short, the solution is to go into your Firewall and reset the permission on “explorer.exe” from “Deny” to “Allow.”

How do you copy the code in a file as directed above?

Thanks so much Karthikeyan!

I was out of ideas after trying every other IE default page fix out there, including my own idea of deleting all go.microsoft.com entries from the registry.

I cannot believe such a major company can get so many simple things wrong so often. Usually, it’s because they insist on taking control out of the hands of users.

Go Firefox. Go Linux.

Thanks Karthikeyan! Those registry entries did the trick.

It worked,
thanks Karthikeyan

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“RunOnceComplete”=dword:00000001
“RunOnceHasShown”=dword:00000001

Hi,

I just installed a VGA card and updated the computer with Microsoft Update and got this problem.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005

I tried to enter the registry parts, however it didn’t work. When I click on the home button the browser will go to the home page I use (google).

So somehow it still wants to do the runonce on
a site which doesn’t excist…

Has anyone got another idea how to solve this problem?

Thanks Karthikeyan!

I just added the “RunOnceComplete”=dword:00000001 to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] using regedit to get rid of the annoying habit of not going directly to my homepage. It was frustrating!