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Annoying prompt: ActiveX and app initialization
Hi everyone,
Last night I installed MS Office Professional Edition 2003. Even though I already had Office 2002, I did a complete install (as opposed to the Upgrade option at installation) . My O/S is Windows XP. Since then, when I close an Excel application (most of mine contain VBA and controls), an annoying message box appears, with "Microsoft forms" in the title bar, the vbExclamation icon, and two buttons labeled OK and Cancel. The text of the message is: "This application is about to initialize ActiveX controls that might be unsafe. If you trust the source of this file, select OK and the controls will be initialized using your current workspace settings." I have done numerous searches on Google and did everything anyone had been advised to do that was experiencing this same problem. I also went to this KB link http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;827742 and followed the directions by setting the UFI control to 1 for each of the 3 registry keys listed on that page. One of the 3 key paths was incorrect (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Off ice\Common) in that on my system at least, there was no "Office\Common" path continuation, so I created one and still set the UFI to 1 there. No luck. Nothing I've tried has worked. I guess Office 2003 is still too new whereby there is not abundant information on how to fix this annoying pop-up at application close (not quitting Excel necessarily, just closing a file that contains VBA or ActiveX controls). Has anyone experienced this and successfully fixed it? If so, how did you fix it? Thanks for any info or tips. Tom Urtis |
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Annoying prompt: ActiveX and app initialization
sounds like spyware |
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Annoying prompt: ActiveX and app initialization
"Tom Urtis" wrote in
: Hi everyone, Last night I installed MS Office Professional Edition 2003. Even though I already had Office 2002, I did a complete install (as opposed to the Upgrade option at installation) . My O/S is Windows XP. Since then, when I close an Excel application (most of mine contain VBA and controls), an annoying message box appears, with "Microsoft forms" in the title bar, the vbExclamation icon, and two buttons labeled OK and Cancel. The text of the message is: "This application is about to initialize ActiveX controls that might be unsafe. If you trust the source of this file, select OK and the controls will be initialized using your current workspace settings." I have done numerous searches on Google and did everything anyone had been advised to do that was experiencing this same problem. I also went to this KB link http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;827742 and followed the directions by setting the UFI control to 1 for each of the 3 registry keys listed on that page. One of the 3 key paths was incorrect (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Off ice\Common) in that on my system at least, there was no "Office\Common" path continuation, so I created one and still set the UFI to 1 there. No luck. Nothing I've tried has worked. I guess Office 2003 is still too new whereby there is not abundant information on how to fix this annoying pop-up at application close (not quitting Excel necessarily, just closing a file that contains VBA or ActiveX controls). Has anyone experienced this and successfully fixed it? If so, how did you fix it? Thanks for any info or tips. Tom Urtis We're getting the same behavior where the MS resolutions aren't working. We're running Office 2003 Professional Enterprise Edition on a brand new Windows XP Professional box, so I don't think it's a matter of updates. The original XLS files were developed in Office 2000 with mostly Microsoft developed controls (MS DataGrid, MSCOMCTL.OCX, etc.). Funny thing is, we didn't run into this issue when testing our Office solution on the Office 2003 Beta version... -- Andrew Mauer To reply directly, remove .nospam from address. |
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Annoying prompt: ActiveX and app initialization
I have the problem where when I add an add-in to Excel, I get the same
message. I know it is this custom activex control that I have created because if I take it out of the addin, I do not see this message anymore. I have even digitally signed the ocx file and that does not seem to fix the problem. I have already looked at the KB article and none of the changes to the registry seems to fix the problem either. If anyone can help me out, that would be greatly appreciated. |
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