Active X problem

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Cherri

On my Windows ME system, all of my desktop icons except
the default Windows icons are missing. If I click on any
of the existing icons, I get a message "Your current
security settings prohibit active x controls from
running..." I can't even get the start menu to work.
Help!!
 
Hi Cherri,

It appears that you have somehow changed the Internet Explorer security
settings for the Local Machine Zone on your computer.

Internet Explorer uses security zones to restrict Web content from
performing potentially damaging operations on your computer based on the
location (zone) of the Web content. For example, Web pages in the Internet
zone have stricter security restrictions than Web pages in the Trusted and
Local intranet zones.

Content in the Local Machine zone, except for content that Internet
Explorer caches on your local computer, is treated with a higher level of
trust than content in the Local intranet, Internet, Trusted sites, and
Restricted sites zones. As a result, a malicious user may try to take
advantage of the power of the Local Machine zone to elevate their
privileges and run arbitrary code on your computer.

The Local Machine zone is an implicit zone for content that exists on your
local computer. The Local Machine zone is not exposed in the Internet
Options control panel. However, the settings for this zone can be
configured by an administrator using registry settings.

You can only remedy this problem by directly editing the system registry on
your machine or loading the correct registry settings from a .reg file.

To reset default settings for the Local Machine zone
1. Copy the text below, and then paste it into a text editor (such as
Notepad):

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Zones\0]

"1200"=dword:00000000
"1201"=dword:00000001
"1400"=dword:00000000
"1406"=dword:00000000
"1C00"=hex:00,00,02,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Zones\0]

"1200"=dword:00000000
"1201"=dword:00000001
"1400"=dword:00000000
"1406"=dword:00000000
"1C00"=hex:00,00,02,00


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Inter
net Settings]

"Security_HKLM_only"=dword:00000001

2. Save the file as DefaultLMZ.reg.
3. Run DefaultLMZ.reg on your computer to import the strengthened settings
into the registry.

Regards,
Tim [MSFT]
(e-mail address removed)

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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This is a Windows 2000 newsgroup. Try posting in a windowsme newsgroup for help. They
are vastly different operating systems. Good luck. --- Steve
 
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