Vista - ActiveX control not working

For websites we use an editor called Adminimizer Pro to allow updating of
content. The company who made it no longer supports it but it works very well
for us. After one computer was updated to VISTA, it no longer loads the
editor window. The ActiveX component seems to be downloaded fine, but it
will just not load into the page. I can provide a link to an example if
someone would be so kind as to help me troubleshoot the problem.

This seems to happen most when an ActiveX installation is run from within IE7
in Protected Mode with UAC turned on. Some .OCX files that are installed to
the System32 folder in Vista get their permissions set to "Special" during
installation. Actually uninstalling them can be very difficult.

Some workarounds:
If you can download the installation file...
1) Run the installation program in XP compatibility mode, or
2) Run the installation program as administrator.

If not...
3) Manually register the files from an elevated CMD prompt.
From the search box, type CMD.
Right-click CMD.exe and Run As Administrator.
regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\filename.ocx
4) Check the file properties to ensure that during installation User
permissions have not been set to Special.
Search for any other .OCX files and make the permissions match.

5) Or, reinstall the software running the Install/Setup file as
administrator.
Or, turn of UAC during the installation. NOTE: If the first two methods above
did not work, this one most likely will not work either.

6) Absolute worst case:
Reinstall the program as administrator.
Reinstall Vista as an upgrade.
(This will adopt all System32 files and correct permissions.)

Good luck!

"Steve Maisch - ProWeb Associates" wrote:

> For websites we use an editor called Adminimizer Pro to allow updating of
> content. The company who made it no longer supports it but it works very well
> for us. After one computer was updated to VISTA, it no longer loads the
> editor window. The ActiveX component seems to be downloaded fine, but it
> will just not load into the page. I can provide a link to an example if
> someone would be so kind as to help me troubleshoot the problem.