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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 1821183" data-attributes="member: 649">About half the time I surf ENWorld I use an old Pentium 400 on a wireless laptop. Because the little guy only has 64mb, I changed my security settings so that it wouldn't run ActiveX controls or any other plug-ins by default, but will instead ask me. This helps a ton when surfing pages (on other sites) that want to run like 3 Flash ads, something that drags my baby down considerably.This is all well and good, and I'm reasonably satisfied with the situation. I'm curious, though, why every page of ENWorld asks to use an ActiveX control or plug in. What is this control and what does it do? It's clearly not an ad, since I get the same ads whether I accept or not. I thought it might have something to do with some of the nifty Javascript features (like the collapsing menus, user sub-menu, topic rollovers, etc.), but things seem to run the same whether I allow the download or not.So what does it do? Why am I clicking &quot;No&quot; for every page in the site?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 1821183, member: 649"] About half the time I surf ENWorld I use an old Pentium 400 on a wireless laptop. Because the little guy only has 64mb, I changed my security settings so that it wouldn't run ActiveX controls or any other plug-ins by default, but will instead ask me. This helps a ton when surfing pages (on other sites) that want to run like 3 Flash ads, something that drags my baby down considerably. This is all well and good, and I'm reasonably satisfied with the situation. I'm curious, though, why every page of ENWorld asks to use an ActiveX control or plug in. What is this control and what does it do? It's clearly not an ad, since I get the same ads whether I accept or not. I thought it might have something to do with some of the nifty Javascript features (like the collapsing menus, user sub-menu, topic rollovers, etc.), but things seem to run the same whether I allow the download or not. So what does it do? Why am I clicking "No" for every page in the site? [/QUOTE]

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