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Active X filtering with IE11

I am having a problem where some of my users are trying to send information to a website through a billing program called Medent. With Internet Explorer 11 this automatic process keeps failing and the info is not sent. The support for Medent suggests turning on Active X filtering which allows the process through. However, by doing this it stops Active X working for every other site which is not a good option.

I have found a lot of information about how to turn Active X filtering on for ALL sites and then turning it off for each site as needed. But my question is - is there a way to do the opposite? Turn OFF Active X filtering except for specific sites? That would be ideal.

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Tarkisal--
In IE9 and 10 you could do what you want by turning on Active X Filter and then putting the sites you do not want filtered into Trusted Sites.
That should work for IE 11 also
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-activex-filtering#ie=ie-11-win-7
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Thank you for your responses. I was hoping there was a way around this but sadly it appears I will have to turn the filtering on and then check it off for each site that requires it.

Thanks again!
http://www.ditii.com/2011/02/10/how-to-manage-your-internet-explorer-9-activex-filtering-exceptions/

You can bypass the active X filter per site by updating this registry key:

"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Safety\ActiveXFilterExceptions" REG_DWORD /d 1