Internet Explorer and ActiveX is not working

[dewd]

HI,

I recently came across a problem with a computer using
Windows XP Home Edition and Internet Explorer 6.

Certain web pages will not load, and each time they
attempt to load I get an error message stating something
to the effect of "Due to your ActiveX settings this page
will not load, you must change your ActiveX settings in
Internet Explorer".

Now I went through each setting default, lowest, middle,
and highest security setting, but it still keeps giving
me the error messages. I even tried the custom setting,
enabling everything, and also trying it to prompt me...
no change.

I found a Microsoft knowledge base article explaining the
situation, and it told me to search the hard drive for
these two files: iuengine.dll and iuctl.dll which were
located in system32 folder in windows. I deleted every
file (did a search for multiple copies) for both on the
computer. It was supposed to make the computer ask for me
to reinstall the windows XP cd, but it did not such thing.

I am really stumped on this, and can not even go to
Windows update to get the critical security patches
needed for this machine. After clicking the welcome link
I get a message stating that certain things on ActiveX do
not allow me to view the page

Is there any way to remove ActiveX and reinstall it, or
something else that I must do? I really need to install
the security updates, especially for the Sasser worm.

any and all help is much appreciated

Thanks

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Something here may help; I'd be interested to know which MS knowledge base
article prompted you to delete files to force a reinstall of XP.

 

[Guest]

Is there a way to remove activeX and reinstall it? What
is the work around for it for IE 6 and WindowsXP Home
Editiion?

thanks