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What are the practical common usages of activeX?

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redsss

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Mar 17, 2004
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After I disabled activeX controls from automatically executing I constantly get prompts asking to execute activeX controls.

Can somebody please list some of the practical applications of activeX that all these websites are using activex for?

The only practical activeX application I know of so far is determining whether flash is installed to send a flash ad banner or a gif.
 
Flash itself is an ActiveX control. So is the JRE (Java Runtime Environment). Also, some types of webcams allow users to control them through an ActiveX control downloaded from the webcam.

You can see a list of ActiveX controls installed by Internet Explorer by going to Tools->Internet Options, then select the "General" tab, then press the "Settings" button in the "Temporary Internet Files" group, then click the "view objects" button.
 
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