Thanks a lot for your help.
> Are all of the affected machines fully up-to-date at Windows Update?
Yes, yesterday we installed all the Windows update for Win2000 SP4.
We ran the
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/kb896688_fix.zip, and it says
that all 4 values are correct.
What else do we need to check ?
Thanks.
"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Are all of the affected machines fully up-to-date at Windows Update?
>
> ActiveX controls may not load as expected in Internet Explorer due to
> defense in depth changes introduced in cumulative security update 896688
> (MS05-052)
> http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=909889
>
> A Web page that contains a custom ActiveX control may not load as expected
> in Internet Explorer due to defense in depth changes introduced in
> cumulative security update 896688 (MS05-052)
> http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=909738
>
> The fix detailed in 909889 involving the Registry and OLE32.DLL is
> available at
>
> - http://patch-info.de/IE/Downloads/OLEfix.zip, and
>
> - http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/kb896688_fix.zip (a small VB app that
> checks the 4 values and offers a repair option if any of them are
> incorrect).
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
>
> fniles wrote:
>> We created an ActiveX control and marked it as safe for scripting using
>> Implements IObjectSafety. We then created a CAB file and signed it using
>> Verisign.
>> We also created a license file (LPK file) for it.
>> We use this control on an ASP page.
>> We put the CAB file for the AX control and VBRun60.CAB in the same folder
>> with all the ASP files.
>> When we call the ASP page using any machine with IE 6 SP2 (we tried it
>> with multiple IE6 SP2 machines), it prompted you to download the control
>> and it got downloaded fine, and the ASP page works fine.
>> But, when we call the ASP page using a machine with IE 6 SP1 (we tried it
>> with multiple IE6 SP1 machines), it did not even prompt you to download
>> the control even though the control does not exist in the machine.
>> Because of this, the ASP page does not work because the AX control does
>> not exist. The IE setting is such that we either enable or prompt
>> downloading a
>> control and initialize and script AX control.
>>
>> Here is the codes for the control in the ASP page:
>> <OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:5220cb21-c88d-11cf-b347-00aa00a28331"
>> id="Microsoft_Licensed_Class_Manager_1_0"1 VIEWASTEXT><PARAM
>> NAME="LPKPath" VALUE="BControl.lpk"></OBJECT>
>>
>> <OBJECT id="bcontrol2" height=0 width=0
>> classid=clsid:CAC161FD-C2F9-4F0F-95F3-A3D4E5D465CD
>> codeBase="BControl.CAB#version=1,0,0,0" VIEWASTEXT>
>> <PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="873">
>> <PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="847">
>> </OBJECT>
>>
>> Why in IE 6 SP1 it did not even prompt me to download the AX control even
>> though it does not exist?
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>