stupid question

[jamiecole]

Hi there, i know this isnt the right forum to post this but this is the only ActiveX forum i can find on the WHOLE internet. Is there any way i can uninstall ActiveX then reinstall it because on practically every prompt i get there is always a problem with it, cant download this and cant download that.

Thanks alot

 

[jamiecole]

for example:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/9917/heartbeaterrorpic1fi.jpg

i meant i get alot of error messages not prompts saying it cant find certain files or they dont have a valid signature and this is on practically everything.

 

[BobRodes]

ActiveX is kind of a catch all term that Microsoft marketing types coined. Nobody really knows what it means at all, but don't tell anyone--that's supposed to be a secret.

To back this up, here's wikipedia's definition of ActiveX:

A loosely defined set of technologies developed by Microsoft for sharing information among different applications. ActiveX is an outgrowth of two other Microsoft technologies called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and COM (Component Object Model). As a moniker, ActiveX can be very confusing because it applies to a whole set of COM-based technologies. Most people, however, think only of ActiveX controls, which represent a specific way of implementing ActiveX technologies.

In other words, nobody knows what it means, and nobody knows that nobody knows what it means. Therefore, when you see an error message such as "ActiveX component can't create object" it invariably means something else. So, your solution to whatever problem mentions the term has to do with something other than ActiveX, which is why I explained this for you.

So, change your settings in IE to allow downloads that aren't digitally signed. Of course, this opens you up to viruses and such, but it will stop blocking downloads from people that haven't paid lots of money to some company owned by Microsoft.





Bob

 

[jamiecole]

Thanks Bob, ive played around with all the active X controls on IE in the tools section but no hope and every website with activeX il get one of those error messages. ^^



thanks!