Does an MVP or Microsoft have ...

[Lee Menningen]

.... an inventory of all components (ActiveX or dll's or
whatever else tht might matter) that should be on a XP/IE
SP1 machine?

I suggest this because I see that over and over again no
one responds to someone posting a request for help when
they say they get the dreaded "Your current security
settings prohibit running Active X controls on this page.
As a result the page may not display correctly."

I guess no one knows the answer, so they shot-gun "check
your IE settings", or recommend to "re-install XP/IE", or
an occassional MS KB article recommends re-registering
certain dll's. Those suggestions don't seem to work. It is
obvious the text of the error is itself an error.

Would it help if we had an inventory list of what should
be on the machine, along with file sizes, and we could
compare our machines with the list?

What do you think ...

Lee

 

[Mike Mulligan]

"Would it help if we had an inventory list of what should be on the machine,
along with file sizes, and we could compare our machines with the list?"

Whose configuration should we use?

Mike Mulligan

 

[Lee Menningen]

If you are asking about choosing sub-sets of dll's from
all available dll's on the distribution disk, couldn't
each dll be annotated with the same choices one has to
check during the Windows installer dialog box?

Obviously each check box we check must include a
particular set of files. Of course some files are
unconditional. It doesn't matter that a file included by
check-box C has already been installed because of check-
box B. And there aren't very many check-boxes, so there
wouldn't be very many sub-sets.

So it doesn't seem necessary to know anything about the
users particular "configuration".

Forgive me if I am a bit presumptuous speaking out of
complete ignorance like this, but it does sound so
sensible to me.

Lee

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

But, the dll versions change with service packs, various
updates from security patches and later versions of
installed products such as Office (and its service packs
and patches), etc. and that only covers some of the
components/controls that have resulted from software
from MS. Then you would need to consider third-party
software which also can install components that can
be hosted by IE, and then the versions of those.

Often times, when I see people having a problem,
and I do not experience it on any of my systems
which have generally a ton and a half of various
MS software at different, often beta versions also,
I end up assuming the problem is caused by some
third-party software that is installed which interrupts
proper operation of the subsystem having the problem.