"security settings do not allow activeX"

[Guest memelon]

I have windows vista and windows One Care. I play games on the computer and

just recently, games that I have played for more than 4 years suddenly prompt

a message that says that my security settings to not allow ActiveX in some

programs. I don't use the Windows Firewall, only the One Care since two

firewalls could conflict with one another. This is really starting to get on

my nerves because the games no longer run smoothly. They freeze up.

[Guest Mr. Arnold]

"memelon" <memelon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I have windows vista and windows One Care. I play games on the computer and

> just recently, games that I have played for more than 4 years suddenly

> prompt

> a message that says that my security settings to not allow ActiveX in some

> programs. I don't use the Windows Firewall, only the One Care since two

> firewalls could conflict with one another. This is really starting to get

> on

> my nerves because the games no longer run smoothly. They freeze up.</span>

 

It's IE that has the security settings that are not allowing an ActiveX

control to be installed so that IE can use it. You need to check the

settings in IE. However, you should be very careful as to what ActiveX

controls are allowed to be installed on the computer particularly if they

are not Vista compliant ActiveX controls and most of them are not Vista

compliant, which can and will lead to IE crashing or Vista itself crashing.

 

The firewall has nothing to do with this. I have heard of the One Care as

being a FW, but who you should really have enabled is the Vista FW.