Re: Lost information bar

A recent security update may be involved. Here's a reposted message from PA
Bear:
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1. ActiveX controls may not load as expected in Internet Explorer due to
defense in depth changes introduced in cumulative security update 896688
(MS05-052) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909889

Fix: http://patch-info.de/IE/Downloads/OLEfix.zip (OLEFix.reg) or
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/kb896688_fix.zip (KB896688_fix.exe; a small
VB app that checks the 4 values and offers a repair option if any of them
are incorrect)

2. A Web page that contains a custom ActiveX control may not load as
expected in Internet Explorer due to defense in depth changes introduced in
cumulative security update 896688 (MS05-052)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909738

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
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If installing McAfee IS8 from a CD, check these settings:
Internet Options> Advanced> Security> check "Allow active content to run in
files on My Computer ."
and
"Allow active content from CDs to run in files on My Computer ."

Or [longshot] Turn on the pop-up blocker. Click the Settings button. Check
"Show information bar." Set filter level to Low. OK your way out. Restart.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Jonno" <Jonno[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECA0311F-62EA-429D-AF3D-8F4FBE7B0F12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thank you Don for your reply.
>
> My task was to install MIS8, so all AV, AS, and firewall tools had been
> removed and I had run McAfee CLAV to remove infections and I had manually
> removed non-standard tool-bars and gimmicks.

> "Don Varnau" wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Additional information:
> > If the Yahoo toolbar is installed, don't just disable it- uninstall it.
> >
> > See if this information seems to apply:
> > http://windowsxp.mvps.org/olereg.htm

> > "Jonno" wrote in message
> > news:71A17509-90E5-4292-8789-AC265B8CE2C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > I have read a dozen articles generated by this search string and I
have
> > spent
> > > the best part of a day running patches, registry fixes and tinkering
with
> > > Internet Explorer security settings and registry values, all to no
avail.
> > >
> > > I do not know what destroyed the information bar functionality, but I
can
> > > report that it is dead. IE is blocking pop-ups, but not showing the
> > > information bar to enable them, and it is blocking Active X scripts,
but
> > > again not displaying the information bar to enable them.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone out there who knows how to restore a lost/broken
> > information
> > > bar?
> > [snip]

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