M$oft Update on 4-11 will screw up many programs
Posted by Kat at 16:58, 10 Apr 2006Microsoft's ActiveX Update on April 11th will screw up many programs
If your PC has a Windows operating system, your favorite websites, business applications, and toolbars could stop working beginning April 11th due to a non-security update that's due to be automatically installed on April 11. So, if you have your PC set for 'automatic updates' from Microsoft/Windows, you might want to consider immediately switching to manual updates.
The problem is that Microsoft lost a lawsuit over patent infringement, and the patent was for how ActiveX, Quicktime, Flash, the Sun Java runtime, Adobe, RealPlayer, and other such controls are displayed in a browser.
To address this patent infringement, Microsoft is releasing an ActiveX Update patch that will be deployed to all Windows machines with Automatic Update turned on beginning April 11, 2006. This update prevents the user from automatically interacting with an embedded object like a Flash movie or a toolbar. The user needs to manually activate the object first, either clicking the object or using the TAB+Enter keys. The movie will still play, but interactive effects, such as clicks and mouseover events will require you to explicitly activate or accept the warning. Thus an embedded movie or music will play, but the buttons to control the movie will be inactive. Anything within the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT HTML tags will now require manual activation.
This patch has been around under various forms since January, but what's new is this automatic deployment to all Windows machines with Automatic Update turned on beginning April 11, 2006. The problem is that it breaks almost every Flash, ActiveX, and media-rich webpage out there, and most people don't really know what to do to fix the problem.
So if you're one of these people who won't really know how to fix it, you might want to read the whole article, turn off your 'automatic updates' from Microsoft, and then burn into your memory cells that this ActiveX patch is one 'update' you definitely don't want to download. And keep in mind, if you turn 'automatic updates' back on at a later date, this ActiveX patch will automatically download then.
Kat
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Comments
26 February 2005
3 years 43 weeks
Hello Kat, thanks for placing this notice, where do I go in my control panel to shut off the automatic updates. All of a sudden one night, my computer did everything automatically and it actually wiped out some of my programs, and now it is like on an auto update thing. Do you know where I go in the control panel?
I am on windows XP buisness professional, not home model.
Thank you , if you could possible let me know, I would really appreciate it.
C
Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
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13 May 2004
1 year 2 days
Howdy Dr. C.
You can go to:
Control Panel --> System, then click on the "Automatic Updates" tab to set options. That is, if you're running Win XP. Otherwise, if you can't find it there, post back here and let me know what operating system you're running.
yer ol' pal,
Xibalba
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26 February 2005
3 years 43 weeks
THis is the third time I am trying to post thank you to you. I have been stuck and no buttons or anything have worked on teh grail for me, but, i noticed I was logged on for all of these days, I must have forgotten to log off, then I did, but could not log back on, I hope this will post now. I want to tell you I opened up the control panel and saw the updates thing and worked on it, yes, I am on Windows XP, thank you, C
Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
Circular Times
www.robertschoch.net