Install activex in ie

Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped.

Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Cancel Submit. Naman R. You should only install ActiveX controls if you have information about the Web site that offers the control and the publisher that created the control Active X Installer service on the computer should be started, then on Internet Explorer you will get a pop-up that will allow to install this add-on.

Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Microsoft Edge. This site in other languages x. There are two security issues involved.

Firstly you need to set your browser settings to allow the installation of ActiveX controls. This is fairly trivial, and I suspect you already know how to do this.

If not I can post instructions. The second issue is likely the one you are concerned about. This instructs the control to create the appropriate registry entries. Typically this involves touching registry keys which require administrator privileges. Unless you are willing to spend the time changing the registration code you are snookered. In recent years, Microsoft has come up with a registration procedure which allows the control to be registered on a per user basis, and this does not require administration privileges.

Google for "Isolated COM" for details. As I have explained, unless you are willing to change each individual OCX to change the manner in which they enter their registry values, you must run with administrator privileges. Remember, you are essentially installing software, and installing software generally requires administrator privileges. This is important from a security standpoint since you don't want regular users installing software willy-nilly on any workstation. There are other ways of distributing your software.

You can use SMS for example. Click Install officeviewer. If you can't not see the Internet Information Security Bar. You may have turned off the Information Bar. It will need to be turned on to install our ActiveX control successfully.

Ask your system administrator to log into your computer as a user with Administrator user rights. If all else ways fail, you can try our manual installation tool. You need regsvr32 the officeviewer.