How to disable "ActiveX Control May Be Unsafe" popup - scripting

Question

In an HTML file on My Computer, I'm trying to use the Scripting.FileSystemObject in a script. How can I disable the popup saying "Any ActiveX control on this page may be unsafe for scripting"?
The "Internet Options" Security pane allows one to set "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting" to Enabled for various zones, but files on the local computer don't appear to be in any of the listed zones.
So I guess the alternate question is "How can I edit the security options for local files?"
System:
Windows XP SP3
Internet Explorer 7

Answer 1

By pure hackery, I discovered that setting the following registry value does it:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]
"1201"=dword:00000000
But I'm still wondering whether there's any supported way of doing this.

Answer 2

Tools |Internet Options | Advanced tab .. way down under Security .. "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer"

Answer 3

Start Menu, Run and type INETCPL.CPL
Click the Security tab
In the Internet Zone, click the Custom Level button
Set Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe to Allow

Answer 4

There's a registry way of getting "Local Computer" to appear as one of the security zones. But this article doesn't mention IE7, so IE7 might be different. XP also has new settings like "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer" under advanced options.
Alternatively, if you rename your local .html file to .hta (a HMTL application), that might be what you're looking for. Unless you need all the browser chrome.

Answer 5

as someone mentioned that this should be added to registry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]
"1201"=dword:00000000
but i found that "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe" must be enabled too for internet zone

Answer 6

Depends on the version. Here's for IE32 on x64 Windows:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228}\Implemented Categories]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228}\Implemented Categories{7DD95801-9882-11CF-9FA9-00AA006C42C4}]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228}\Implemented Categories{7DD95802-9882-11CF-9FA9-00AA006C42C4}]

Answer 7

I also had ActiveX security warning ("an activex control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction ?") on IE11 Win10 & with the below registry setting I could suppress that popup.
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Zones\0] "1201="dword:00000000".
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18 is for SYSTEM account & we can also set this for HKCU for current user account.

Answer 8

Activex Controls often prompt an error message while trying to launch course through the local files. (For IE7)
Please set the following settings under internet option\Security\Internet\custom level\
Run Activex controls and plug ins - Enable
Script Activex control marked safe for scripting - Enable
under Scripting - Active Scripting - Enable
Also please check the following check box undertools\Internet options\Advanced\security
1. Allow active content to run in my files on my computer.
~Alpana