Re: ActiveX Controls

My concern is that getting to the download is frequently a more complex
process involving traversing several pages, logging into accounts, having
pages launch other pages, etc. So you don't go directly from
known-safe-page to ActiveX download.

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Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC


"Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns9698DDDE8399Everanoesthemutforsse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm not sure that I understand your problem.
>
> Yes, you would have to start IE while the server is in install mode.
> But that's just what you want, isn't it, that the HKLM\...\Install
> \Software key is updated with the ActiveX information, for every
> user.
>
> Note that merely *starting* IE in install mode doesn't cause anything
> to be mirrored in the registry. That happens first when you start
> modifying the registry by installing ActiveX.
>
> Of course, you should *not* surf around the Internet for half an hour
> before installing ActiveX. But if you open IE with a safe Intranet
> startpage and from there go directly to the web site with ActiveX
> (create a favorite to this side when still in execute mode, so that
> you don't have to browse to it), you should be fine.
> _________________________________________________________
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> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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>
> "Hal Berenson" <hberenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 19 jul 2005
> in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
>> For ActiveX controls that have installers, which are the
>> minority, this is what I assumed would work. The majority of
>> ActiveX controls are downloaded when you go to a web page and
>> don't offer the option of saving and then installing them later.
>> So I'd have to run IE with TS in Install mode. That would end
>> up mirroring things into the HKLM\...\Install\Software that
>> don't belong there, right?


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