ActiveX will not re-install...

Hi all,

I've had the misfortune of having Adobe's "update" destroy my working
ActiveX installation on IE6, and can not get it back even after meticulously
following all their instructions and various other recommendations, so out
of desperation, I thought I'd ask in the MS news groups as to whether anyone
else has insights or suggestions to try. The failure is apparently due to an
OSX file that fails to register, although the correct permissions are set.

Windows 2000 pro SP4... IE6.

TIA,

Neil

And you anti-virus application is...?

Neil Gould wrote:
Hi all,

I've had the misfortune of having Adobe's "update" destroy my working
ActiveX installation on IE6, and can not get it back even after
meticulously
following all their instructions and various other recommendations, so out
of desperation, I thought I'd ask in the MS news groups as to whether
anyone
else has insights or suggestions to try. The failure is apparently due to
an
OSX file that fails to register, although the correct permissions are set.

Windows 2000 pro SP4... IE6.

TIA,

Neil

Hi,

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
And you anti-virus application is...?

Of course, I did thoroughly check my system for viruses after the "update"
first failed about a week ago. The system is clean.

Also, I have several versions of Flash & ActiveX off-line installers, and
they now all fail with the same error (an OSX file fails to register, the
actual file depends on the version), even when anti-virus is disabled. I was
able to install them as needed before without problems.

Neil

You didn't answer my question.

Neil Gould wrote:
Hi,

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
And you anti-virus application is...?

Of course, I did thoroughly check my system for viruses after the "update"
first failed about a week ago. The system is clean.

Also, I have several versions of Flash & ActiveX off-line installers, and
they now all fail with the same error (an OSX file fails to register, the
actual file depends on the version), even when anti-virus is disabled. I
was
able to install them as needed before without problems.

Neil

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
You didn't answer my question.

Typically, I use Spybot when on-line. However, to check the system after the
first failure, I used a number of anti-virus applications that I keep
on-hand and up-to-date. None reported any problems, and all subsequent
attempts to install ActiveX were done off-line with no active anti-virus
software.

Hope that helps.

Neil


Neil Gould wrote:
Hi,

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
And you anti-virus application is...?

Of course, I did thoroughly check my system for viruses after the
"update" first failed about a week ago. The system is clean.

Also, I have several versions of Flash & ActiveX off-line
installers, and they now all fail with the same error (an OSX file
fails to register, the actual file depends on the version), even
when anti-virus is disabled. I was
able to install them as needed before without problems.

Neil

Spybot is not an anti-virus application. Do you NOT have an (one)
anti-virus application running in the background at all times?

Spybot's two Residents provide only minimal protection, but one of them may
be blocking the ActiveX file from installing. Since you're so familiar with
this stuff, I don't need to tell you anything more, I'm sure.

Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...r/default.mspx

Steps To Help Prevent Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...e/prevent.mspx

Steps to Help Prevent Computer Worms
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...s/prevent.mspx

Neil Gould wrote:
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
You didn't answer my question.

Typically, I use Spybot when on-line. However, to check the system after
the
first failure, I used a number of anti-virus applications that I keep
on-hand and up-to-date. None reported any problems, and all subsequent
attempts to install ActiveX were done off-line with no active anti-virus
software.

Hope that helps.

Neil


Neil Gould wrote:
Hi,

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
And you anti-virus application is...?

Of course, I did thoroughly check my system for viruses after the
"update" first failed about a week ago. The system is clean.

Also, I have several versions of Flash & ActiveX off-line
installers, and they now all fail with the same error (an OSX file
fails to register, the actual file depends on the version), even
when anti-virus is disabled. I was
able to install them as needed before without problems.

Neil

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
Spybot's two Residents provide only minimal protection, but one of
them may be blocking the ActiveX file from installing.

How would that happen when they are not running, e.g. during offline
installlation attempts?

Neil

Neil Gould wrote:
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
Spybot's two Residents provide only minimal protection, but one of
them may be blocking the ActiveX file from installing.

How would that happen when they are not running, e.g. during offline
installlation attempts?

Thread history:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e94bcb95f02615

NB: Quote this post in full if you reply to it, otherwise I shall ignore all
further replies.

Being offline has no affect whatsoever on Spybot SDHelper and Tea Timer. In
any event, you would not be able to install most ActiveX Controls if the
machine was offline.

Spybot Support Forums
http://forums.spybot.info/

PS: What on earth does any of this have to do with Outlook Express?
==
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
Neil Gould wrote:
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
Spybot's two Residents provide only minimal protection, but one of
them may be blocking the ActiveX file from installing.

How would that happen when they are not running, e.g. during offline
installlation attempts?

Thread history:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e94bcb95f02615

NB: Quote this post in full if you reply to it, otherwise I shall ignore
all
further replies.

Being offline has no affect whatsoever on Spybot SDHelper and Tea Timer.

When I wrote "...they are not running...", I meant that I exited Spybot and
there were no Spybot or any other anti-virus programs' processes running
according to Task Manager.

In
any event, you would not be able to install most ActiveX Controls if the
machine was offline.

I was certainly able to do that before, as I have Adobe's tools for doing
exactly that, and until I ran into this problem, I could install other
versions of ActiveX for testing purposes.

Spybot Support Forums
http://forums.spybot.info/

PS: What on earth does any of this have to do with Outlook Express?
==
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

Thanks for your attempts to help out.

Neil

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
Spybot is not an anti-virus application. Do you NOT have an (one)
anti-virus application running in the background at all times?

Spybot's two Residents provide only minimal protection, but one of them
may
be blocking the ActiveX file from installing. Since you're so familiar
with
this stuff, I don't need to tell you anything more, I'm sure.

Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...r/default.mspx

Steps To Help Prevent Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...e/prevent.mspx

Steps to Help Prevent Computer Worms
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...s/prevent.mspx

The "Full Service Scan", above, reported that there were no viruses etc. on
this system. While that may not be ultimately conclusive, it is consistent
with all the other anti-virus I've run, so I'm fairly confident that the
problem lies elsewhere.

Neil Gould wrote:
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
You didn't answer my question.

Typically, I use Spybot when on-line. However, to check the system after
the
first failure, I used a number of anti-virus applications that I keep
on-hand and up-to-date. None reported any problems, and all subsequent
attempts to install ActiveX were done off-line with no active anti-virus
software.

Hope that helps.

Neil


Neil Gould wrote:
Hi,

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
And you anti-virus application is...?

Of course, I did thoroughly check my system for viruses after the
"update" first failed about a week ago. The system is clean.

Also, I have several versions of Flash & ActiveX off-line
installers, and they now all fail with the same error (an OSX file
fails to register, the actual file depends on the version), even
when anti-virus is disabled. I was
able to install them as needed before without problems.

Neil