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  2. ActiveX - Wikipedia

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    If the browser encountered a page specifying an ActiveX control via an OBJECT tag (the OBJECT tag was added to the HTML 3.2 specification by Charlie Kindel, the Microsoft representative to the W3C at the time [8]) it would automatically download and install the control with little or no user intervention. This made the web "richer" but provoked ...

  3. Microsoft Update Catalog - Wikipedia

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    The latest iteration of the site was launched in August 2007, and at the time, only worked in the web browser Internet Explorer, version 6 and version 7.Before using the catalog, the user must install an ActiveX control so that they can search the updates available on the website.

  4. Inappropriate advertising on AOL

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    Do not permit the installation of ActiveX controls that you haven't requested. Solutions. Below you'll find solutions to help resolve your issue. Please try these in order – the first two will resolve most issues. The third suggestion is optional, and is intended only to help supply meaningful malware-related information to AOL Information ...

  5. Windows Genuine Advantage - Wikipedia

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    The ActiveX control is downloaded on the first validation and when a new version is available, but the validation itself can be performed any time the user connects to a Microsoft Website to update. On Windows Vista without service packs, WGA validation failure has a greater impact.

  6. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]

  7. Object Linking and Embedding - Wikipedia

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    OLE custom controls are usually shipped in the form of a dynamic link library with the .ocx extension. In 1996 all interfaces for controls (except IUnknown) were made optional to keep the file size of controls down, so they would download faster; these were then called ActiveX Controls.

  8. Active Scripting - Wikipedia

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    Active Scripting (formerly known as ActiveX Scripting) is the technology used in Windows to implement component-based scripting support. It is based on OLE Automation (part of COM ) and allows installation of additional scripting engines in the form of COM modules.

  9. regsvr32 - Wikipedia

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    In computing, regsvr32 (Register Server) is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [1] for registering and unregistering DLLs and ActiveX controls in the operating system Registry. [2] Despite the suffix "32" in the name of the file, there are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of this utility (with identical names, but in ...