Security settings disable ActiveX during first start of VS- hangs

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Benedikt - 11 Jul 2004 20:48 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to install a Trial VS Professional 2003 Version on a computer with all current fixes installed.
Setup routine runs fine- all Antivirus programmes were disabled.
The first (and every subsequent) start of VS brings up an additional window and a dialog on top of it. The dialog says [in german, so this is not to be taken literally]
"current security settings prevent excecution of ActiveX controls on this site".
When I confirm this message, the dialog disappears. The window behind becomes active and says:
"Please wait while the installation assistent is initializing the system"
..and nothing happens.. System hangs..

I feel that this problem is related to some fix I had recently installed from windowsupdate. This fix was said to prevent execution of malicious ActiveX controls. I have some strange effects happening since.

[I have set all settings of the Internet explorer to the weakest protection possible- no effect]

Any idea?
Benedikt

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Tim Macaulay[MSFT] - 19 Aug 2004 14:32 GMT

Benedikt,

I found some internal information on this error message "current security
settings prevent excecution of ActiveX controls on this site". This can
happen because there is a problem with toolbars or some other component
inside of the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net IDE.

You may try running the below command-line to resolve the issue:

Start > Run and type devenv /setup and then click Ok

HTH.

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay, MCSD, MCP.Net
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

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Diego - 16 Oct 2004 19:45 GMT

Hi Tim,

I have exactly the same problem as Benedikt: I am also trying to install an
English trial version and I also receieve the mesage about my security
settings not allowing an ActiveX to execute on this page (Spanish version of
the message). My operating system is Windows 2000. Internet browser security
settings lowest.

I don't know if it is relevant but in the log file vsinstall71.txt there are
two lines:
Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({27B34574-6B5B-409F-9F93-D1E927B39E9C})
vs70uimgr: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global
prop in CUIMgr::GetGlobalProperty()
that make me suspect that something went wrong.

The last 3 lines of the file are:
Setup.exe: ISetupManager::RunInstallFromList(IP_POSTINSTALL) completed
Setup.exe: ISetupManager::RunInstallLists() completing
vs70uimgr: Entering RunningComponent() method.

I tried your suggestion and ran
devenv /setup

Nothing happened, same behaviour, out of luck.

Any other hints? Meanwhile I am going to reinstall everything including the
net framework.

Hope you can help me.

Thanks, Diego

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