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What is 'Active X'?

Active X is a set of utility controls developed by Microsoft Corporation to work with its popular browser Internet Explorer (IE). Because Active X was not initially designed to allow for compatibility with Macintosh products or other browser systems, such as Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari, yet these controls are often required for advanced functionality when using popular websites such as Facebook, chat rooms, and many video and gaming programs, there are also a number of continually evolving and ever more advanced tools called 'plug-ins' which can help to assist with incompatibility issues.

How Do I Know if I Have Active X on My Computer?

The very first step you will need to take before you begin installing it to make sure that it is not already installed on your computer. There is an easy way to check for the presence of Active X by visiting a website that offers an Active X check test. Websites such as www.activextest.com offer a free test that takes just a few seconds to complete.

How Do I Install Active X on My Computer?

Because Active X comes pre-installed on nearly every PC that runs on a Windows system, and the Active X installation test will be able to confirm this for you, what you will need to do to install Active X controls on your computer is actually to enable them to run by changing certain settings in your Internet Explorer browser's 'Security Options' menu bar tab.

NOTE: If you are using a Macintosh computer, be aware that Active X is not supported by Mac products.

Here are the steps to take to install Active X on your computer:

1. Open Internet Explorer (IE)
2. Look up to the top of your computer screen to the menu bar
3. Locate a menu bar option labeled 'Tools' and click on it
4. From the drop-down menu, drag your cursor down to 'Internet Options'
5. You will see a series of tabs. Select 'Security' Options
6. Make sure the 'Internet' picture is active (click on it to make it active) *
7. Scroll down to where you see a button labeled 'Custom level...' and click on that
8. This will bring up a number of options for enabling and configuring Active X on your computer
9. Click 'Enable' or 'Prompt' for 'Download Signed Active X Controls' (it is recommended to only allow automatic Active X downloads for sites that are recognized or recommended by Microsoft)
10. Click 'Enable' for 'Run Active X Controls and plug-ins'
11. Click 'Enable' for 'Binary and script behaviors'
12. Click 'Enable' for 'Script Active X controls marked safe for scripting'
13. Click 'Enable' for 'Allow previously unused ActiveX controls to run without prompt'
14. Click 'Enable' for 'Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls'
15. Click 'Enable' for 'Display video and animation on a webpage that does not use external media player' (these Active X controls are commonly called 'Flash Active X controls')
16. Be sure to click the 'Yes' each time you are prompted to save your changes
17. Click on the Security Settings 'OK' button
18. Your version of IE may dictate what you need to do next – with some versions you can simply exit out of the browser window and re-open it to enable Active X controls. However, other versions may require you to restart your computer itself before Active X is enabled
19. Congratulations! You have now installed Active X on your computer!

* You can repeat steps 6-18 with the 'Local Intranet', 'Trusted Sites', and 'Restricted Sites' zones as well, if desired.

NOTE: As needed, any Windows-based PC may from time to time prompt you with a message to download and install an additional Active X control. As new Active X plug-ins are continually being developed, you can choose to allow or ignore these download prompts.

Important

The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022. For a list of what’s in scope, see the FAQ. The same IE11 apps and sites you use today can open in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer mode. Learn more here.

Applies to:

• Windows 10
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
• Windows Vista SP2

ActiveX controls are small apps that let websites provide content, like videos, games, and let you interact with content like toolbars. Unfortunately, because many ActiveX controls aren’t automatically updated, they can become outdated as new versions are released. It’s very important that you keep your ActiveX controls up-to-date because malicious software (or malware) can target security flaws in outdated controls, damaging your computer by collecting info from it, installing unwanted software, or by letting someone else control it remotely. To help avoid this situation, Internet Explorer includes a new security feature, called out-of-date ActiveX control blocking.

Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking lets you:

• Know when IE prevents a webpage from loading common, but outdated ActiveX controls.

• Interact with other parts of the webpage that aren’t affected by the outdated control.

• Update the outdated control, so that it’s up-to-date and safer to use.

The out-of-date ActiveX control blocking feature works with all Security Zones, except the Local Intranet Zone and the Trusted Sites Zone.

It also works with these operating system and IE combinations:

For more info about this new feature, see the Internet Explorer begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls blog. To see the complete list of out-of-date Active controls blocked by this feature, see Blocked out-of-date ActiveX controls.

What does the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking notification look like?

When IE blocks an outdated ActiveX control, you’ll see a notification bar similar to this, depending on your version of IE:

Internet Explorer 9 through Internet Explorer 11

Windows Internet Explorer 8

Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking also gives you a security warning that tells you if a webpage tries to launch specific outdated apps, outside of IE:

How do I fix an outdated ActiveX control or app?

From the notification about the outdated ActiveX control, you can go to the control’s website to download its latest version.

To get the updated ActiveX control

1. From the notification bar, tap or click Update.

   IE opens the ActiveX control’s website.

2. Download the latest version of the control.

Security Note:
If you don’t fully trust a site, you shouldn’t allow it to load an outdated ActiveX control. However, although we don’t recommend it, you can view the missing webpage content by tapping or clicking Run this time. This option runs the ActiveX control without updating or fixing the problem. The next time you visit a webpage running the same outdated ActiveX control, you’ll get the notification again.

To get the updated app

1. From the security warning, tap or click Update link.

   IE opens the app’s website.

2. Download the latest version of the app.

Security Note:
If you don’t fully trust a site, you shouldn’t allow it to launch an outdated app. However, although we don’t recommend it, you can let the webpage launch the app by tapping or clicking Allow. This option opens the app without updating or fixing the problem. The next time you visit a webpage running the same outdated app, you’ll get the notification again.

How does IE decide which ActiveX controls to block?

IE uses Microsoft’s versionlist.xml or versionlistWin7.xml file to determine whether an ActiveX control should be stopped from loading. These files are updated with newly-discovered out-of-date ActiveX controls, which IE automatically downloads to your local copy of the file.

You can see your copy of the file here %LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersionManagerversionlist.xml or you can view Microsoft’s version, based on your operating system and version of IE, here:

Security Note:
Although we strongly recommend against it, if you don’t want your computer to automatically download the updated version list from Microsoft, run the following command from a command prompt:

Turning off this automatic download breaks the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking feature by not letting the version list update with newly outdated controls, potentially compromising the security of your computer. Use this configuration option at your own risk.

Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking

Important

The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022. For a list of what’s in scope, see the FAQ. The same IE11 apps and sites you use today can open in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer mode. Learn more here.

on managed devicesOut-of-date ActiveX control blocking includes four new Group Policy settings that you can use to manage your web browser configuration, based on your domain controller. You can download the administrative templates, including the new settings, from the Administrative templates (.admx) for Windows 10 page or the Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 page, depending on your operating system.

Group Policy settings

Here’s a list of the new Group Policy info, including the settings, location, requirements, and Help text strings. All of these settings can be set in either the Computer Configuration or User Configuration scope, but Computer Configuration takes precedence over User Configuration.

Important
Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking is turned off in the Local Intranet Zone and the Trusted Sites Zone; therefore, intranet websites and line-of-business apps will continue to use out-of-date ActiveX controls without disruption.

If you don't want to use Group Policy, you can also turn these settings on or off using the registry. You can update the registry manually.

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Inventory your ActiveX controls

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You can inventory the ActiveX controls being used in your company, by turning on the Turn on ActiveX control logging in IE setting:

• Windows 10: Through a comma-separated values (.csv) file or through a local Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class.

• All other versions of Microsoft Windows: Through a .csv file only.

Inventory your ActiveX controls by using a .CSV file

If you decide to inventory the ActiveX controls being used in your company by turning on the Turn on ActiveX control logging in IE setting, IE logs the ActiveX control information to the %LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerAuditModeVersionAuditLog.csv file.

Here’s a detailed example and description of what’s included in the VersionAuditLog.csv file.

Where:

• Source URI. The URL of the page that loaded the ActiveX control.

• File path. The location of the binary that implements the ActiveX control.

• Product version. The product version of the binary that implements the ActiveX control.

• File version. The file version of the binary that implements the ActiveX control.

• Allowed/Blocked Whether IE blocked the ActiveX control.

• Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM)-compatible. Whether the loaded ActiveX control is compatible with Enhanced Protected Mode.

  Note
  Enhanced Protected Mode isn’t supported on Internet Explorer 9 or earlier versions of IE. Therefore, if you’re using Internet Explorer 8 or Internet Explorer 9, all ActiveX controls will always be marked as not EPM-compatible.

• Reason. The ActiveX control can be blocked or allowed for any of these reasons:

Inventory your ActiveX controls by using a local WMI class

For Windows 10 you also have the option to log your inventory info to a local WMI class. Info logged to this class includes all of info you get from the .csv file, plus the CLSID of the loaded ActiveX control or the name of any apps started from an ActiveX control.

Before you begin

Before you can use WMI to inventory your ActiveX controls, you need to download the configuration package (.zip file), which includes:

• ConfigureWMILogging.ps1. A Windows PowerShell script.

• ActiveXWMILogging.mof. A managed object file.

Before running the PowerShell script, you must copy both the .ps1 and .mof file to the same directory location, on the client computer.

To configure IE to use WMI logging

1. Open your Group Policy editor and turn on the Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerTurn on ActiveX control logging in IE setting.

2. On the client device, start PowerShell in elevated mode (using admin privileges) and run ConfigureWMILogging.ps1 by by-passing the PowerShell execution policy, using this command:

   For more info, see about_Execution_Policies.

3. Optional: Set up your domain firewall for WMI data. For more info, see Collect data using Enterprise Site Discovery.

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The inventory info appears in the WMI class, IEAXControlBlockingAuditInfo, located in the WMI namespace, rootcimv2IETelemetry. To collect the inventory info from your client computers, we recommend using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager or any agent that can access the WMI data. For more info, see Collect data using Enterprise Site Discovery.