Re: restrictions on non-admin users? cannot download ActiveX control.??

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<mqsash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1112698701.408672.52580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Hi

a) No antispyware or other software that you mentioned are running.
b) The site is not part of the restricted zone
c) It most probably is that "By design in Windows 2000,
members of the Users group cannot install ActiveX controls from the
Internet without modifying the rights of the group"

but reading the phrase carefully, it looks like one can modify certain
rights of the group to allow members of "users" group to install
ActiveX controls from the internet. Could you please let me know what
these rights are, so that I can verify that it is indeed a rights
issue.

TIA
mqsash



While you may not have any anti-malware programs currently running, some such programs don't need to be running to thwart malware. For example, SpywareBlaster adds killbit entries into the registry that prevent AX controls with those class IDs to not execute. So you might want to ensure that you don't have a killbit entry for your AX control's class ID in the registry. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=240797.

You could just temporarily switch the problematic account to the Standard (Power Users) or Administrators group to check if they can then install your AX control after downloading it. That would ensure that something else isn't interferring with the install of your AX control.

You could also try defining a software policy specify for your AX control. I haven't done this so you'll need to ask someone else how they use this policy to manage software restrictions.

Description of the Software Restriction Policies in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310791

I supposed you could even try using the RunAs command to run the browser under admin rights.

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