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by dnme

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Can anyone help in changing the security setting on a PC running NT IE6 SP6 so that ActiveX controls run. The Warning msg reads...

"This page provides potentially unsafe information to an ActiveX control. Your current security settings prohibit running controls in this manner. As a result, this page may not display correctly."

I have gone into the properties and changed all setting (Internet, Lan, security) to the lowest settings but to no avail. The warning comes up even when I am using MS Help files.

Thank You.

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by thechas

I assume that you have gone into internet options, security, custom, and set all of the active X controls to enable.

See if there are any Windows updates, or IE6 patches that address the issue.

Update, and run your virus scanner. It is possible that a virus has attached itself to an activex file, and that is what is driving the error.

Uninstall, and re-install IE6.

Chas

by tommymcbrayer

I have used this before and it works.

SYMPTOMS
After you install Internet Explorer, when you restart the computer, if you click the View as Web page option under active desktop, you may receive the following error message:

This page provides potentially unsafe information to an ActiveX control. Your current security settings prohibit running controls in this manner. As a result, this page may not display correctly
This error message is not displayed, however, if you right-click the Active Desktop , point to Active Desktop , and then click View as Web Page to remove the check mark.

CAUSE
This issue can occur if the Comcat.dll file is damaged or is the wrong version number.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, unregister the Comcat.dll file by using the Regsvr32.exe utility with the /u switch as in the following example:

regsvr32 /u C:\winnt\system32\comcat.dll
and rename the Comcat.dll file in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder.

After you unregister the Comcat.dll file, reinstall Internet Explorer.

For information about how to rename a file, click Start , click Help , click the Index tab, type renaming , and then double-click the " Renaming files " topic.

If you remove Internet Explorer before you reinstall it, be sure to rename the Comcat.dll file after removing Internet Explorer.

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