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Windows 8 not installing Active X component
Posted on 2014-01-16
I have a computer running windows 8.
We are trying to run the installation of an add on. When we do we get the yellow Active X bar asking to install an Active X control, we do. Then go back and it asks again and again and again ... it never gets installed.
We have uninstalled antivirus, etc. No luck so far.
We are trying to run the installation of an add on. When we do we get the yellow Active X bar asking to install an Active X control, we do. Then go back and it asks again and again and again ... it never gets installed.
We have uninstalled antivirus, etc. No luck so far.
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I think Windows 8 is drifting away from Active X support. Some Windows 8 mobile devices and phones do not even have Active X.
I think the Active X add on needs to be re-written for Windows 8. I don't use Active X on my Windows 8.1 computer. See the Microsoft Support article on this subject below here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh920753(v=vs.85).aspx
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I think the Active X add on needs to be re-written for Windows 8. I don't use Active X on my Windows 8.1 computer. See the Microsoft Support article on this subject below here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh920753(v=vs.85).aspx
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Because of your question, I looked on the Windows 7 machine beside me and it supports Active X.
My Windows 8.1 machine does not.
So I would say you are probably out of luck. Microsoft says to use HTML 5
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My Windows 8.1 machine does not.
So I would say you are probably out of luck. Microsoft says to use HTML 5
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If the Windows 8 machine is trying to run an old application, you can get Windows 7 (say) and make a virtual machine from it. Then run the virtual machine in Windows 8. I do this with VMware Workstation and have Windows 7, Vista, XP and earlier machines to run other or legacy versions of things.
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If virtualization is not an option, then you have to live without Active X on Windows 8. There were some ideas in the Microsoft Article above, but they may not fit you either.
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The classic IE10/IE11 in win8/8.1 does support activeX plugins. The Modern IE does not.
Did you try that activex installation with the classic IE? What site is it?
Did you try that activex installation with the classic IE? What site is it?
Other browsers and computers works well. Its this particular computer we can't get around :( ... for now I have given up
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Funny, that you didn't care to respond to my questions - we might be able to help you.
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