ActiveX's won't download in IE (no Info bar)

External Since: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 1

Hi,

did anyone already suggest this:
- Log on to your machine as Administrator and chose as domain your
local machine. DO NOT chose your enterprise domain!
- Visit the website in question and see if that changes anything
- Also make sure, that the domain administrators password and the
password for your local machine's administrators account match

regards
H. Eberhard
B&E Consulting
Germany

External Since: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 1

Open notepad. paste the following into it:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0000031A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
@="ClassMoniker"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0000031A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\InprocServer32]
@="ole32.dll"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0000031A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\ProgID]
@="clsid"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\CLSID]
@="{0000031A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"

then click File > Save As...
In the Save in: dropdownn box, select your desktop.
Name the file repair_kb896688.reg
and choose the Save as type: to be All Files.

Close notepad and then navigate to your desktop. Double click the file and
allow the information to be added to your registry.

We have been forced to deploy this on almost every computer in our network.
Without these regedits active x doesn't seem to work almost everywhere.
Windows update doesn't work, OWA doesn't work, control panel doesn't work
etc....

As with all registry edits...the standard warnings apply...don't do it if
you have no idea what you are doing, always make a backup etc....

"Lars-Erik Xsterud" wrote:

> > > Re: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Q_21631785.html
> >
> > Does it have to do with if your are redirected from somewere.
> > Try to view the articles at these two URLs now w/o luck:
> >
> > http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21312972.html
> > http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Q_21592102.html
> >
> > (maybe I clear all caches and cookies and try them after that Smile

>
> That worked for all of them, BUT none of the fixes there helped
> either. Even tried adding the server with the ActiveX to the Trusted
> Zone (then the Information Bar should not appear at all, right) but
> the message still says that "Could not install ActiveX" Sad

>
> And no matter what I do (reregistering DLLs, checking registry
> settings, changing security setting, group settings etc) I still can't
> get that Information Bar to show when an ActiveX is to be downloaded
> (but since it is not downloaded with zone=Trusted I guess the
> Information bar is not the problem - ActiveX is blocked otherwhere)
>
> On tip mentioned a "XP repair install" but how big a mess-up is that
> (will much of my system look, setup etc by reset to standard XP)?
>
> And how do I initiate a repair install...
>
> Added "microsoft.public.windowsupdate" to the list, since I have
> noticed that most people get into this error when using Windows Update
> (because they then can't install and run MS own update ActiveX Smile

> --
> Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
> WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!
>