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Reputation:

How to disable "ActiveX Control May Be Unsafe" popup

In an HTML file on My Computer, I'm trying to use the Scripting.FileSystemObject in a script. How can I disable the popup saying "Any ActiveX control on this page may be unsafe for scripting"?

The "Internet Options" Security pane allows one to set "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting" to Enabled for various zones, but files on the local computer don't appear to be in any of the listed zones.

So I guess the alternate question is "How can I edit the security options for local files?"

System: Windows XP SP3
Internet Explorer 7

Upvotes: 10

Views: 82109

Answers (8)

NDestiny
NDestiny

Reputation: 1181

I also had ActiveX security warning ("an activex control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction ?") on IE11 Win10 & with the below registry setting I could suppress that popup.

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0] "1201="dword:00000000".

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18 is for SYSTEM account & we can also set this for HKCU for current user account.

Upvotes: 0

dadanier
dadanier

Reputation: 161

  1. Start Menu, Run and type INETCPL.CPL
  2. Click the Security tab
  3. In the Internet Zone, click the Custom Level button
  4. Set Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe to Allow

Upvotes: 2

Zubaer Naseem
Zubaer Naseem

Reputation: 11

as someone mentioned that this should be added to registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0] "1201"=dword:00000000

but i found that "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe" must be enabled too for internet zone

Upvotes: 1

Scott Evernden
Scott Evernden

Reputation: 39926

Tools |Internet Options | Advanced tab .. way down under Security .. "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer"

Upvotes: 8

WRFan
WRFan

Reputation: 11

Depends on the version. Here's for IE32 on x64 Windows:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228}\Implemented Categories]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228}\Implemented Categories{7DD95801-9882-11CF-9FA9-00AA006C42C4}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228}\Implemented Categories{7DD95802-9882-11CF-9FA9-00AA006C42C4}]

Upvotes: 0

Alpana
Alpana

Reputation:

Activex Controls often prompt an error message while trying to launch course through the local files. (For IE7)

Please set the following settings under internet option\Security\Internet\custom level\

  1. Run Activex controls and plug ins - Enable
  2. Script Activex control marked safe for scripting - Enable
  3. under Scripting - Active Scripting - Enable

Also please check the following check box undertools\Internet options\Advanced\security 1. Allow active content to run in my files on my computer.

~Alpana

Upvotes: -1

Lee Kowalkowski
Lee Kowalkowski

Reputation: 11751

There's a registry way of getting "Local Computer" to appear as one of the security zones. But this article doesn't mention IE7, so IE7 might be different. XP also has new settings like "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer" under advanced options.

Alternatively, if you rename your local .html file to .hta (a HMTL application), that might be what you're looking for. Unless you need all the browser chrome.

Upvotes: 1

Reputation:

By pure hackery, I discovered that setting the following registry value does it:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]
"1201"=dword:00000000

But I'm still wondering whether there's any supported way of doing this.

Upvotes: 17

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