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I was having a problem with a website, and thought it might be due to an incorrect installation of an ActiveX Control. I found two sources from Microsoft; the first of which did not seem to address my question, the second one did. But I wanted to post screenshots because it was not entirely obvious how to do this.

This refers to Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

METHOD 1

The first post that I found from the Microsoft Knowledge base has you go through the control panel. For one, this KB needs updated because it refers to Windows XP terminology and could be confusing to those using Vista.

Step 1: Go to your Start menu (yours may look slightly different depending on how you’ve set your settings)

Step 2: Click on the Control Panel (My settings are set to “Display As A Menu”, I will assume you have this set to the default which is “Display As A Link”) which will bring up one of the two following windows:

If you have not changed the default, then you will display the Control Panel as “Control Panel Home”, in which case, choose the link for “Uninstall a Program” under the Programs sub-heading.

However, if you have changed this to the “Classic View”, then your Control Panel will look like this (more like the display back in Windows XP. Here, you want to click the icon for “Programs and Features”

Step 3: From here, scroll around to see if you can find the ActiveX control in question. I was not able to find what I was looking for, but you can see here where I do have controls available for uninstall (i.e. the Adobe Flash Player ActiveX). If you don’t find what you are looking for, then go to Method 2 below.

 

 

METHOD 2

Step 1: This method starts within Internet Explorer. Go to the “Tools” menu and then select the “Manage Add-ons” and then Enable or “Disable Add-ons” submenus:

Step 2: Now find the control that you are interested in and just click the “Delete” bottom in the lower right hand corner. This method is nice because it apparently lists all controls, however, some of the names are cryptic and confusing. However, from this window, you can also choose just to enable/disable objects rather than fully deleting.

 

 

GOOD LUCK!

Tags: ActiveX, Hacks, Help and How-To, Internet Explorer, PC, Vista

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