Problem executing Help from the Task Scheduler

[Guest]

Running XP HOME Edition
When I try to click on help in the Scheduled Tasks program I get the error:
Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this
page. As a result, the page may not display correctly.

I have set my browser Internet security to Low, my Local intranet to Low,
and Trusted Sites to Low, but still I get the above error.

How do I fix?

Thanks for any and all help.

 

[Galen]

In Bruce Liebman <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Running XP HOME Edition
When I try to click on help in the Scheduled Tasks program I get the
error: Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX
controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display
correctly.

I have set my browser Internet security to Low, my Local intranet to
Low, and Trusted Sites to Low, but still I get the above error.

How do I fix?

Thanks for any and all help.

Open IE, click tools, click options, click advanced, scroll down, allow
active content to be displayed on my computer. That work?

Galen

 

[Guest]

Galen,

Thanks for your reply, but your suggestion to, "Open IE, click tools, click
options, click advanced, scroll down, allow active content to be displayed on
my computer.", did not work because nowhere on that advance menu did the
words "allow active content ..." exist.

Thanks for trying.

 

[Jim]

Running XP HOME Edition
When I try to click on help in the Scheduled Tasks program I get the error:
Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this
page. As a result, the page may not display correctly.

I have set my browser Internet security to Low, my Local intranet to Low,
and Trusted Sites to Low, but still I get the above error.

How do I fix?

Thanks for any and all help.

Open Internet Properties, go to security Tab, select Internet, go to
custom Level Disable/Enable/Prompt as needed, this should help.

 

[Galen]

In Bruce Liebman <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Galen,

Thanks for your reply, but your suggestion to, "Open IE, click tools,
click options, click advanced, scroll down, allow active content to
be displayed on my computer.", did not work because nowhere on that
advance menu did the words "allow active content ..." exist.

Thanks for trying.

Okay then let's try this (you haven't updated to SP2 yet?) open IE, click
tools, click options, click security, click on the Your Computer icon, click
on Custom Level, and the ActiveX for the My Computer zone.

Galen

 

[Guest]

Galen,

Thank you for continued interest in my problem.

First off, I did not upgrade to XP SP2. I have a Gateway machine and have
tried doing so on several occassions. Each time I have done so I have
destroyed my machine. I have had both Microsoft and Gateway involved in my
problem and neither one of them were any help. I have decided to forget about
SP2.

I have tried setting everything under the custom settings having to do with
activeX to enable underthe Internet tab, the intranet tab and the trusted
sites tab to enable. Nothing works.

 

[Guest]

Jim,

Thanks for your input.

Please refer to my lastest response to Galen today. In it I told him I have
tried all that he and you suggested. I did this way before I posted to this
board.

 

[Galen]

In Bruce Liebman <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Galen,

Thank you for continued interest in my problem.

First off, I did not upgrade to XP SP2. I have a Gateway machine and
have tried doing so on several occassions. Each time I have done so I
have destroyed my machine. I have had both Microsoft and Gateway
involved in my problem and neither one of them were any help. I have
decided to forget about SP2.

I have tried setting everything under the custom settings having to
do with activeX to enable underthe Internet tab, the intranet tab and
the trusted sites tab to enable. Nothing works.

Well, not one of those zones. The MY COMPUTER zone or the YOUR COMPUTER zone
(I think it was My Computer in SP1) should be where you're playing. When
you're done you might want to go back to the other zones that you've played
with and set them back to normal as some of those settings are VITAL to your
continued security and the stability of your OS.

Galen

 

[Guest]

Galen,

I am not a novice with computers, but I do not know where or what the MY
COMPUTER" zone or "YOUR COMPUTER" locates.

In the Internet Explorer, Version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.050301-1536, under the
tools menu -> internet options -> Security tab, there are 4 zones
(1)Internet, (2)Local Internet, (3)Trusted Sites and (4)Restricted Sites.
Nowhere to be found is a zone called "MY COMPUTER" zone or "YOUR COMPUTER"
zone. The zone you are referring to may be in the XP PRO Edition. I am using
XP Home Edition. I have also checked everything under the "MY COMPUTER" icon
I have on my desktop and found no ActiveX settings under the properties.

If I am not looking in the right place please be more specific on how to
where you are referring to.

Thanks again for your continued interest.

Bruce

 

[Galen]

In Bruce Liebman <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Galen,

I am not a novice with computers, but I do not know where or what the
MY COMPUTER" zone or "YOUR COMPUTER" locates.

In the Internet Explorer, Version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.050301-1536,
under the tools menu -> internet options -> Security tab, there are
4 zones (1)Internet, (2)Local Internet, (3)Trusted Sites and
(4)Restricted Sites. Nowhere to be found is a zone called "MY
COMPUTER" zone or "YOUR COMPUTER" zone. The zone you are referring to
may be in the XP PRO Edition. I am using XP Home Edition. I have also
checked everything under the "MY COMPUTER" icon I have on my desktop
and found no ActiveX settings under the properties.

If I am not looking in the right place please be more specific on how
to where you are referring to.

Thanks again for your continued interest.

Bruce

Bruce,

Good morning once again. It's raining off and on here in my neck of the
woods. I'm not sure why you don't have a My Computer zone on your computer.
You should. Then again it MIGHT be that it's a tweak that I use that enables
it and it's something that I do to every computer that I use? No worries.
It's pretty easy to get you one... (They're handy to have too and *should*
enable us to get this fixed up in a jiffy.)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315933

As a second note, and I don't suppose this matters as the point is that you
want it to work, I've never found the Help in XP to give me any information
that I really wanted. I've never really had the Troublshooting Wizard do me
any good either. It's a moot point though when you're just hoping that the
computer will work the way you want it to.

Are you running any software that's preventing this from loading such as a
script blocking tool? Is updating out of the question?

Galen

 

[Guest]

Good Morning Galen,

Weather in my neck of the woods (South Carolina) has been cool and windy the
last two days.
I checked out that web site regarding the addition of the "My Computer Zone"
to my machine.
I exported the registry path to my desktop and here is what was displayed:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet]

As you can see no values existed under that key at all.

I hope this addition to the registry was intended to work in XP Home Edition
SP1.
I will try to add the information later in the day when I am fully awake
(had a bad night's sleep last night).

As for the reason I want the help to work, I nolonger remember. I seem to
have been caught up in the fact that it didn't work when I was trying to get
some additional information.

 

[Guest]

Galen,

Correction - I read the PATH wrong in that article. I found the correct PATH
and verified that the setting was HEX 00000021, I will change to 00000047 and
see what happens. I will get back to you later

Bruce

 

[Guest]

Galen,

After installing the ICON and adjusting the setting as you discribed the
"Task Scheduler Help" now appears to be working properly.

You are the man!

Thanks you very much.

 

[Galen]

In Bruce Liebman <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Galen,

After installing the ICON and adjusting the setting as you discribed
the "Task Scheduler Help" now appears to be working properly.

You are the man!

Hah! I got your email as well. I've responded. I'm glad that it worked.
Usually it's not a matter of knowing the right answer right away but
actually it's more important to be on the same page and communicating
clearly -- which is seldom the fault of one but usually the fault of ALL
parties. The way I figure it the only thing I'm really good at is
troubleshooting or using a search engine. <g> The rest? There's people far
more adept and with far greater knowledge than I. Basically if you poke at
stuff long enough you'll either break it and not care any longer (or perhaps
will have to start anew) or you'll fix it.

The irony is that I'd figured that after this long you probably didn't even
really care ABOUT really accessing help but rather were keeping at it just
as a matter of principle. And now, seeing a bit of your bio shows that this
was really the reason.

What you could say is that I cheat. I found a beautiful setup that I really
like. I have all the settings mastered that I want to keep (not mastered as
in known completely but, well, you'll see) and all the programs installed
that I want. I take this and I reboot and do a 'repair' installation. When
it gets ready to reboot I just shut it off. I then take that drive and clone
it. Then when I get a new computer I put that cloned copy into the system
and clone it to that computers drive. From there I just go ahead and finish
the repair installation that I'd started a month or so ago (I go through a
lot of hardware) and when it's done it's like I've never really changed
systems at all. Thus the "My Computer" zone is either there by default with
MSDN XP Pro or it's something I added way back when the OS was still pretty
new as a tweak and to me has become default. I actually have quite a few
security zones in there and manage them all with a third party utility. I
add sites to restricted areas where some scripting is allowed and other's
aren't. I then wait to see if the site requires it and then opt to move it
up the ladder towards a more trusted zone instead of just relying on the
default settings from Microsoft.

Anyhow, you might want to put the other zones back to default or higher now.
Surfing about the 'net without the protection added at a very effective and
basic level is not the safest thing I could think of doing. It's your PC so
you don't have to but I know that I'd do so if I were you. I once had a...

*looks in clipboard manager*

Hah. Here it is...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/security/setup.mspx

If you get really bored and want to take a look you might find the above
site to be interesting. It's pretty good if you scroll down through the
stuff you already know and find the meat of the page. It should pass an
afternoon by if you're ever bored enough to be interested in it.

Anyhow, it's warmed up to a balmy 54 degrees. *nods* That's roasty toasty
here. Still no sign of the Sun really but that's okay as I didn't plan on
actually going out and about today either way.

Galen
--

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me
the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am
in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial
stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for
mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes