Re: ActiveX issues

From: Kevin Spencer (kspencer_at_takempis.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:27:52 -0400

Could be all kinds of things. An ActiveX control is an executable. It could
also be an OS configuration issue, depending again upon what the ActiveX
control does, and/or the browser. Could be the user who is currently logged
on not having the necessary privileges. Could be a virus, spyware, or
adware. IOW, you have your work cut out for you. 

-- 
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
"mcmg" <mcmg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8809D8C5-8556-4C1E-A787-AFE0A7039D78@microsoft.com...
> 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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