Comments on: Disable Internet Explorer 7 Run Once using Group policy

By: what is a hemroid

what is a hemroid — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:12:51 +0000

Fantastic website, mate! Disable Internet Explorer 7 Run Once using Group policy is really a thing. I’ll be launching acquire shortly and I will surely backup elements of the one you have, lawfully of course

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:23:42 +0000

Thank you !!!

Worked pefectly

By: Matthew Aylard

Matthew Aylard — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:35:00 +0000

Nice article, thanks. I had to add the ADM file to windows\inf for this to work on the machine that i was editing the policy with, i couldnt just add adm from another location.

By: Tom Cheng

Tom Cheng — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:57:25 +0000

Me too I had to “install the admFiles_IE7.msi to another folder on mymachine, and then manually copy the resultingfile over the one in the Windows\inf folder. Then add the template to gpedit.msc again” like Jim did. Afterward it works fine though.

By: Jim Brook

Jim Brook — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:04:17 +0000

So many thanks for your help in solving this messy problem. I searched widely on the internet and got some clues. But it was only your time spent giving detailed instructions which was enough to get me all the way.

However, something else was necessary in my case. Having downloaded the msi and installed and updated the adm file the IE configuration list was still in the original state. What I had to do was to install the admFiles_IE7.msi to another folder on mymachine, and then manually copy the resultingfile over the one in the Windows\inf folder. Then add the template to gpedit.msc again. Kind of weird but… maybe it results from having my server 2003 installed on drive E:\ instead of C:\.
Thanks again.

By: Kabul

Kabul — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:28:49 +0000

Thank you very much!!! you are the Man! thanks once again for showing us this trick

/ Kabul Khan

By: Bri-no

Bri-no — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:07:03 +0000

I already have the inetres.adm template added into Group Policy but I’m not seeing the option to “Prevent Performance of First Run Customize Settings”. I am on Server 2003 with IE6, but half of my users have IE7 now. Does the server need to have IE7 to see that option?
I’m looking under User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer. Or is it possible the inetres.adm file is outdated? If so, is that ever updated without erasing the current settings?
Thanks in advance.

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:08:06 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It works great. We have Terminal servers (Citrix) and when we updated the IE to 7.0 every user was getting the run once. What a pain. Ran the gpedit on each of the Terminal servers and it seems to have taken care of the issue.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:19:30 +0000

Good, i cant find the gpo to this and only add the inetres.adm template located in C:\Windows\Inf
(if you have IE7 instaled on you server, if not just download the file in this post or import from another machine that have IE7 instaled.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:52:21 +0000

For some reason, IE7 is ignoring GPO settings in a domain environment…