Re: How to get rid of ie6 ACTIVEX popup?!
From: Vanguard (see_signature)
Date: 01/09/05
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 22:02:25 -0600
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Vanguard" <see_signature> wrote in message
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>> "Tony Mah" <tonymah@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to totally disable ActiveX
>>> Every ActiveX website I go to give me a MS ie6 system popup which
>>> requires
>>> me to click okay.
>>> "Your security settings prohibit running ActiveX controlson this
>>> page. As a
>>> result, the page maynot display correctly."
>>
>>
>> Sounds like the popup is from the web site you are visiting. If you
>> disable AX in Internet security zone and configure it to prompt you,
>> well, then you don't get prompted - by IE, that is. If you believe
>> the site should remain uninformative regarding its requirement that
>> their AX control be downloaded and installed so their web site will
>> display correctly (because you believe every user visiting that page
>> will divine that information when the page doesn't appear fully
>> functional), then you go right ahead and send a nastygram to the
>> author of that site. You think they'll really care about one person
>> complaining about their alert popup rather than to inform their
>> visitors of the behavioral deficiency if AX is disabled? Is there a
>> reason you don't want to use a popup blocker to avoid these
>> "informational" popups from whatever are those, um, "special" web
>> sites you visit?
>
> No, that message is from IE. Tony will have to change his security
> settings to allow ActiveX.
So if you configure the Internet security zone to disable ActiveX (not
prompt but DISABLE it), Internet Explorer still bust your chops bitching
about ActiveX? Glad other applications don't work that way or I could
never get my work done having to answer prompts from everything in every
program that I've ever disabled.
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