Microsoft ActiveX
What is ActiveX?
Microsoft's name for a collection of technologies that enable interactive content on Web sites. With ActiveX (and plugins such as Flash and Shockwave), websites can use multimedia content such as animation, sound, games and other interactive effects.
Why is it important?
Without Active X, websites would not be as interactive and user-friendly as they are today. And you would not be able to interact with the animation on screen by clicking on them.
ActiveX settings prevent Espresso functioning properly
Symptoms -
- Parts of Espresso pages are missing
- The following message appears at the top of your browser:
This means ActiveX is disabled on your computer and Espresso will not function correctly. This can be resolved by amending the following:
Allow ActiveX
Right click on the popup bar shown above and select “always allow active X controls to run on this website”. You should now see the espresso content.
Make Espresso a trusted site
Adding Espresso as a trusted site will insure that the error above does not appear again. to add Espresso as a trusted site:
- Open up the Espresso front screen on your computer, highlight the URL from the address bar and select edit and copy (ctrl +C):
- Click on Tools > Internet Options
- Click on the Security tab.
- Click on Trusted Sites (Green tick) and click on Sites
- Untick the Require Server Verification box
- Paste the address that you copied from step 1 into the top box, then click on Add
- Click OK and OK again to close the settings windows to return to Espresso.
Espresso has now been added as a trusted site.