My brother just got a new HP Pavillion laptop. It’s loaded with XP Professional. Because he futzed up some installs just after getting it, I did a format/reinstall yesterday. So this is a standard installation.
He was trying to take a test through some application from his college. The application runs from a CD, and uses Active X rather heavily. The problem is, every time he tries to load one of the pages, Internet Explorer blocks the active x content and gives him the opportunity to allow the access - for that page alone.
So I went into the IE security settings, and tried to set everything to “low” just to let him take the test in peace. However when trying to set Internet sites to “Low”, a dialog box pops up, saying that “Medium” is the suggested setting for non-trusted internet sites, and sets it back to the custom level that is was at by default. So I tried adding it to “Trusted Sites”. But, because it isn’t a website, but a CD application, that didn’t work. So then I tried enabling each and every ActiveX setting to “Enabled”. That also didn’t work.
Well, I reinstalled Firefox for him, and let him run the program through there, and that worked fine. But I’d really like to know how to get it to allow him to run active X content from this CD without having to enable each page (we’re talking a total of about 100 links, here).
Any ideas?
