ActiveX control - only one chance to install

[Kjell Arne Haugland]

Hi

When you first browse a web page that includes an object
tag referencing a binary component you get a dialog box.
You have basically the choice of installing the component
or not.
However, if you chose 'No', that screen will never be
shown to the user for that page again (At least in my
case). Now the user wants to install the component, but I
find no way to get that dialog up again. How can I
accomplish this?

It's the Lotus Quickplace web controls if that matters.

Thanks!

regards
Kjell Arne

 

[H Leboeuf]

File type association?

You set this for each file type, e.g. for .zip
Explorer-View-Folder Options-File Types
Find the .zip association (may be WinZip File)
Edit, (or click Advanced on ME or XP) and check the "Confirm open
after download" box

The path to Folder Options may vary according to your operating
system. It may be:
Explorer-View-Folder Options
Explorer-Tools-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options.

From: Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems

 

[Kjell Arne Haugland]

Hi and thanks for the reply!

I don't think this has anything to do with file type
association.

It's an object embedded in a web page. For security
reasons IE prompts the user (if enabled at all in advanced
settings) if he/she wants to install the binary object,
say Macromedia Flash.

In this specific case the user selected 'No' the first
time. When he realised what he did he tried to reload the
page, but never got the question again. Now the page is
not functioning the way it's supposed to be
(Upload/download documents on IBM Quickplace).

Any other suggestions? Should be someting about IE
remebering the choices made pr. page/site.

Thanks!

Kjell Arne Haugland

 

[Daniel F. Van Der Werken, Jr. [MS]]

Kjell:

You know, I've never actually tracked this before, but if I were looking
for this, I'd check the IsInstalled section of the registry. For example,
the Macormedia Shockwave Director 9.0 is installed on my system and has the
IsInstalled non-zero.

So, see if you can find the equivalent in the registry and if the
IsInstalled is not zero, set it to zero (hex is 0x0) and see if you can get
the install to pop back on.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed
Components\{166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000}]
"ComponentID"="Director"
"IsInstalled"="1,01,00,00,00"
"Version"="9,0,0,436"
"Locale"="EN"
@="Macromedia Shockwave Director 9.0"

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