Warning message about potentially non safe ActiveX controls

[Pierre Archambault]

Hi,

I write applications with Excel (Office 2003). Initially I used Excel 2000
and Win2K, when I upgraded to WinXP I also changed for Office 2003.

Because my applications are distributed to family and friends, I include my
personnal certificate (SelfCert.exe) to avoid having to accept to run the
macros each and every time a spreadsheet is launched. This way, we only have
to accept once and every other application I develop will execute without
any question... This was true until I changed for XP and Office 2003.

In fact, since that time, I receive this message : (translated from french)

"This application is about to initialize potentially non safe ActiveX
controls . If the source of this file is known to be reliable, click on OK
to initialize the controls with the active workspace parameters."

But then, even if I click on Ok or Cancel, this leads to the same result...
the application runs and the controls work fine anayway ! So why this
warning and how could I get rid of it ?

If someone could help me with this issue, I would greatly appreciate.

Pierre

 

[Jim Rech]

At one time a registry entry helped with this problem. I seem to recall
that it is not so reliable, maybe because of service releases. No harm in
trying it though. Under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security

create this new dword entry:

DisableHyperlinkWarning

and set its value to 1.

If that does not do it I don't have another answer.

--
Jim
| Hi,
|
| I write applications with Excel (Office 2003). Initially I used Excel 2000
| and Win2K, when I upgraded to WinXP I also changed for Office 2003.
|
| Because my applications are distributed to family and friends, I include
my
| personnal certificate (SelfCert.exe) to avoid having to accept to run the
| macros each and every time a spreadsheet is launched. This way, we only
have
| to accept once and every other application I develop will execute without
| any question... This was true until I changed for XP and Office 2003.
|
| In fact, since that time, I receive this message : (translated from
french)
|
| "This application is about to initialize potentially non safe ActiveX
| controls . If the source of this file is known to be reliable, click on
OK
| to initialize the controls with the active workspace parameters."
|
| But then, even if I click on Ok or Cancel, this leads to the same
result...
| the application runs and the controls work fine anayway ! So why this
| warning and how could I get rid of it ?
|
| If someone could help me with this issue, I would greatly appreciate.
|
| Pierre
|
|