Disable IE update that causes “Click to activate and use this control”

So, I have mentioned a brief fix for webmasters to get your sites fixed if having issues with <object>, <embed> and <applet> tags, which are handled by ActiveX in Internet Explorer.

But we all know there’s no way that all sites using these will update their code, so as a user you’re stuck with this irritating functionality?

Well, hope is at hand, from the arms of…er…microsoft. They offer a patch for corporate admins to disable this ‘added functionality’ while they get their webapps up to scratch. Which is nice.

Now they’ll probably disable this in a later rollout, but I’ll keep my ear to the ground on future fixes, as it looks like this issue isn’t going away soon.

Obviously, the better recommendation I can offer is just to use Firefox as your browser.

Related posts:

1. Click To Activate And Use This Control
2. More on the Click To Activate And Use This Control issue

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Tags: annoying, browsers, Flash, IE, patents