Re: ActiveX issues

From: mcmg (mcmg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:37:09 -0700

It's an unsigned control. Windows xp sp1, Office xp sp2.

- It works fine on most machines with windows xp sp1
- 1/4 machines with xp sp1 it does not work
- It works on a windows xp sp2 machine
- Upgraded non-working sp1 to sp2, still not working on that machine
- All Office xp sp2

Any guesses?

"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> If it's an unsigned ActiveX control, you may be bumping up against Windows
> XP Service Pack 2. Have you checked to see whether it was installed?
>
> --
> HTH,
> Kevin Spencer
> ..Net Developer
> Microsoft MVP
> Big things are made up
> of lots of little things.
>
> "mcmg" <mcmg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2FA177A-6D78-410F-9014-3CA6D3BACA16@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but hopefully somebody
> > can point me in the right direction.
> >
> > I wrote a fairly simple ActiveX control in VB6 and added it to my html
> page
> > using Frontpage. When deployed, it works fine on most machines but on 1
> out
> > of 3 or 4 machines IE crashes.
> >
> > On 2 machines I have the same version of Frontpage (2002 sp2), IE
> > (6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633(Q867801)) and windows (xp sp1), all IE
> > settings identical, all dependency files identical, and yet one works and
> one
> > doesn't.
> >
> > On the machine that works, if I open Frontpage and add the activeX control
> > to a new html doc I can see the activeX control. On the machine that
> > doesn't work, if I open Frontpage and add the activeX control to a new
> html
> > doc I can't see the activeX control (I see the Frontpage activeX symbol).
> >
> > The object tag looks something like this:
> > <object classid="clsid:[myclassid]" id="MyActiveXid">
> >
> > Any thoughts on why it might not be working on the one machine? Any
> thoughts
> > on further tests I can do to try to solve this? Any other forums you could
> > suggest that might be able to help me with my object?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
>
>

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