Click to Activate and Use this Control

[Wayne Morgan]

One of the last security updates from Microsoft Update made a change to IE6
that causes the need to double click a control in a web page, once to
activate it and once to do what it is supposed to do. If you hover the mouse
over the control, the control is outlined and the message above appears in
the tool tip. What is the setting to turn this off?

 

[John DH]

I would like to know this as well.

A large number of web sites with flash content do not display correctly when
scrolling with the mouse.

John DH

 

[Jon Kennedy]

This is the cause of your issue:

Internet Explorer ActiveX update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912945

The only way around this is to uninstall this KB912945 via Add/Remove.
Note - this will be included in the next IE cumulative security update and
won't be separately uninstallable.

Why MS is doing this:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2005/12/03/77665.aspx

 

[John DH]

I have managed to find out why this has been happening.

It all boils down to a law suit against MS (which they lost) for breach of
copyright. The result is that MS have changed the way an activex control
operates in IE6 sp2. Users now have to click on the object to activate it
and then again to operate the control.

There is a workaround: if a control is loaded from outside of the html page
then the control works as you intended i.e. via js.

try this:

create a js file with the following:

theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
theObjects.outerHTML = theObjects.outerHTML;
}Now at the bottom of the html page that contains the object create a
reference to the js file that you have just created, thus:<script
type="text/javascript" src="ieupdate.js"></script>
That's it. See what you think.

John DH

 

[Guest]

Another way: LOL I noticed that it doesn't happen in my firefox browser.
Guess no lawyers involved yet.

This is the cause of your issue:

Internet Explorer ActiveX update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912945

The only way around this is to uninstall this KB912945 via Add/Remove.
Note - this will be included in the next IE cumulative security update and
won't be separately uninstallable.

Why MS is doing this:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2005/12/03/77665.aspx

 

[Wayne Morgan]

I know where the change came from. However, the double click is ridiculous.
Highlighting the control's extents with a box as I move the mouse over it is
fine, but the double click needs to go. If I'm going to click it, then I'm
going to click it. The double click doesn't prevent that, it just makes it a
PITA to do so.

--
Wayne Morgan

This is the cause of your issue:

Internet Explorer ActiveX update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912945

The only way around this is to uninstall this KB912945 via Add/Remove.
Note - this will be included in the next IE cumulative security update and
won't be separately uninstallable.

Why MS is doing this:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2005/12/03/77665.aspx

 

[tvanvugt]

Doesn't seem to be coded in IE7 Beta2 yet ... but know knows. Here is
another JS fix. Of course if the user doesn't have JS enabled there
isn't anything you can do.
http://www.pixelmill.com/(wvt79peco7wero3q2e46an2h)/support/support_article.aspx?ArticleID=kb101593

 

[Guest]

It is now in the latest IE 7 Beta 2 which was released on March 20th! What a
PITA!

 

[Guest]

I'm having this problem also, but k912945 is not listed on my add/remove
list. I check Windows Update and it was install March 11th. how can I
uninstall it if it not showing up on my add/remove program list?

Thanks for helping
Rich D.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

In Add/Remove - make sure "Show updates" is checked at the top.