Re: ActiveX won't initiate even though enabled...

From: S.Sengupta (ssengupta__at_msn.com)
Date: 01/01/05


Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 06:16:51 +0530

Either move selected sites to the Trusted Zone, or in Internet zone
click Custom and adjust specific settings.
see:-http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2brows.mspx
regards,
ssg MS-MVP

Andrew L. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a fairly competent computer user, but since using SP2, ActiveX has not
> worked in IE even though it is enabled (I am positive on this) in the
> Internet settings. I have set the security settings to medium and for
> whatever reason (I guess extra security) I cannot set it to "low" but I did
> verify that all ActiveX options are for enabled that should be.
>
> Also, I have no ad-blockers and I disabled pop-up blocking. I also turned
> off the XP SP2 firewall just to be sure that was not a factor. I do tend to
> disable services I probably (or set them to manual) don't need so if one is
> necessary for ActiveX then that is a possibility. I have also run Ad-Aware
> (latest ad-lists) and cleaned all possible spyware.
>
> I really don't run much on my computer in the way of add-ons that could
> interfere with browsing and I have scanned my computer with two different
> up-to-date virus scanners. Actually, the websites that I want to work are
> online virus scanners that use ActiveX and because of this problem, I cannot,
> so it is very important that I solve this problem. I have no other computer
> issues at this time, so mainly the ActiveX is the problem, and I see other
> SP2 users also face similar problems. And I would very much like to do a
> /scannow with a XP/SP2 cd but I cannot use my MSDN subscription to download
> it because ActiveX doesn't work! So I really could use some help!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrew



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