ActiveX controls and Windows 2000

[Andrew Mutch]

I've just been informed by my librarians that AncestryPlus is using a new plug-in
for viewing the 1930 Census images. This plug-in is called the "Advanced Image
Viewer". This new plugin apparently gives you much better control over the viewing
and panning of the images.

With IE, you can download and install the plugin. I did this logged on as
Administrator on a PC running Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 6 and Public Web
Browser. When you browse to the appropriate page in AncestryPlus, the plugin loads
automatically. However, when I logged in using our patron account, which has just
"User" permissions, and browse to the page where I can check the plugin, I get an
error stating that the security settings are preventing the ActiveX control from
loading.

Now, as far as I can remember, I haven't changed the security settings in the
Internet Zone under this patron account. So those security settings within IE that
control ActiveX controls should be the same for the patron account as they are for
the Administrator. Is there somewhere else that the security settings could be
blocking the ActiveX control from loading? Perhaps permissions on a directory? I
haven't seen this problem with ActiveX controls on our public Internet computers,
which have the same security setup.

Thanks in advance!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI