[WEB4LIB] ActiveX controls and Windows 2000

[Jacque King]

Andrew,
Our virus protection puts filters on ActiveX controls, perhaps this
is your issue.  Just a thought....

Jacque King
Library Technical Support Specialist
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson Street
Fort Collins, CO  80524
(970) 221-6716
king at julip.fcgov.com


On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Andrew Mutch wrote:

> 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
>
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