Active x controls vista

I do understand the inconvenience. System Restore can return your PC's system files and programs to a time when everything was working fine, potentially preventing hours of troubleshooting headaches. It will not affect your documents, pictures, or other data.

I would suggest you to refer to the article and check for ActiveX control settings. Once you have done with the above steps, try to access the PC Matic and check if it is working fine. Hope it helps. For any further Windows related assistance, feel free to contact us and we will be happy to help. Was this reply helpful?

Yes No. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. The few that require special privileges ask for them, but they are limited. The fact that all or too many ActiveX controls need admin privileges and apparently run as admin says their security model is still wrong.

After their year concentrating on security, they should have realized that they needed to fundamentally restructure things. They are already demanding powerful hardware for the eye-candy.

Professional software engineers should only use COM i. ActiveX when they need their software to interoperate with software from another company. Time will tell, but. NET does seem to be an improved way to develop language independent networked applications. NET across the board. It might be a restriction of my knowledge of the english language, but after reading the article the question left: what changed exactly?

What should have changed is that the desktop gets locked down. So, basically, Microsoft put in layered user permission system to restrict application permissions and then provided a way around it?

So the question becomes… how hard is it for someone with a user account to spoof one of the whitelisted sites? You manage your users and your computers and by extension, your software through those two central tools. I believe UAC is bad not so much as the ActiveX installation, which is part of it, but to support many extremely poorly written programs that do not conform to Windows Security Model, published prior to the release of Win In Vista everyone is running in Standard User mode, and as such, without UAC, these poorly written program would fail mysteriously, misbehave or crush immediate the best scenario to users.

Some uses over-zealous permission to do a simple job. Many developers, including many big name companies, are ignorant of this specification. It has taken Quicken till their version to have corrected this problem, 5 years after the release of the spec. I only wish Microsoft would find a better way to force these bad programs to correct their mistake.

Many of these developers are not only ignorant of this spec but also developing them in Administrator mode. As such they do not even know if they have committed a mistake. Users who pay money for their products are getting the raw deals. Visual Basic 6 is one of those programs that will not run in LUA but it is an obsolete product now. When I pointed out to them their failure was trying to write to HKLM trying to create the COM registration information after installation , they refused to admit fault.

UAC is going to give these developers more sand to hide their heads in it. In this respect, I believe it is a BAD thing. Unless Microsoft has changed the early design and implement decision of UAC, it is not supported in Win 64 and the last I heard from MS, there was not plan to have this in the future.

Bzzt, thank you for playing, but that is not the correct answer. Since trusted ActiveX controls can be invoked from web pages in many cases, a malicious web page could basically do whatever it wants. I resort to regsvr32 and psexec to handle it most of the time. MSIs are nice and a cleaner way to deploy, but generally more trouble. Microsoft can only do so much to encourage developers to build better software.

Those who are against this idea obviously have no idea what ActiveX is. It really is an issue that MS needs to address. If they want to keep pushing wave after wave of new technology on frustrated customers and their IT teams they will have to get a lot more thoughtful about ways to minimize the toll of transition.

If the company has any sence then they will test the service packs before release anyway i know i certainly do and will be installing alternative security solutions to allow this update. Subscribe to comments on this entry.

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