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Important
The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022. For a list of what’s in scope, see the FAQ. The same IE11 apps and sites you use today can open in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer mode. Learn more here.
Applies to:
ActiveX controls are small apps that let websites provide content, like videos, games, and let you interact with content like toolbars. Unfortunately, because many ActiveX controls aren’t automatically updated, they can become outdated as new versions are released. It’s very important that you keep your ActiveX controls up-to-date because malicious software (or malware) can target security flaws in outdated controls, damaging your computer by collecting info from it, installing unwanted software, or by letting someone else control it remotely. To help avoid this situation, Internet Explorer includes a new security feature, called out-of-date ActiveX control blocking.
Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking lets you:
Know when IE prevents a webpage from loading common, but outdated ActiveX controls.
Interact with other parts of the webpage that aren’t affected by the outdated control.
Update the outdated control, so that it’s up-to-date and safer to use.
The out-of-date ActiveX control blocking feature works with all Security Zones, except the Local Intranet Zone and the Trusted Sites Zone.
It also works with these operating system and IE combinations:
Windows operating system | IE version |
---|---|
Windows 10 | All supported versions of IE. Microsoft Edge doesn't support ActiveX controls. |
Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update | All supported versions of IE |
Windows 7 SP1 | All supported versions of IE |
Windows Server 2012 | All supported versions of IE |
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 | All supported versions of IE |
Windows Server 2008 SP2 | Windows Internet Explorer 9 only |
Windows Vista SP2 | Windows Internet Explorer 9 only |
For more info about this new feature, see the Internet Explorer begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls blog. To see the complete list of out-of-date Active controls blocked by this feature, see Blocked out-of-date ActiveX controls.
When IE blocks an outdated ActiveX control, you’ll see a notification bar similar to this, depending on your version of IE:
Internet Explorer 9 through Internet Explorer 11
Windows Internet Explorer 8
Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking also gives you a security warning that tells you if a webpage tries to launch specific outdated apps, outside of IE:
From the notification about the outdated ActiveX control, you can go to the control’s website to download its latest version.
To get the updated ActiveX control
From the notification bar, tap or click Update.
IE opens the ActiveX control’s website.
Download the latest version of the control.
Security Note:
If you don’t fully trust a site, you shouldn’t allow it to load an outdated ActiveX control. However, although we don’t recommend it, you can view the missing webpage content by tapping or clicking Run this time. This option runs the ActiveX control without updating or fixing the problem. The next time you visit a webpage running the same outdated ActiveX control, you’ll get the notification again.
To get the updated app
From the security warning, tap or click Update link.
IE opens the app’s website.
Download the latest version of the app.
Security Note:
If you don’t fully trust a site, you shouldn’t allow it to launch an outdated app. However, although we don’t recommend it, you can let the webpage launch the app by tapping or clicking Allow. This option opens the app without updating or fixing the problem. The next time you visit a webpage running the same outdated app, you’ll get the notification again.
IE uses Microsoft’s versionlist.xml or versionlistWin7.xml file to determine whether an ActiveX control should be stopped from loading. These files are updated with newly-discovered out-of-date ActiveX controls, which IE automatically downloads to your local copy of the file.
You can see your copy of the file here %LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersionManagerversionlist.xml
or you can view Microsoft’s version, based on your operating system and version of IE, here:
Security Note:
Although we strongly recommend against it, if you don’t want your computer to automatically download the updated version list from Microsoft, run the following command from a command prompt:
Turning off this automatic download breaks the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking feature by not letting the version list update with newly outdated controls, potentially compromising the security of your computer. Use this configuration option at your own risk.
Important
The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022. For a list of what’s in scope, see the FAQ. The same IE11 apps and sites you use today can open in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer mode. Learn more here.
on managed devicesOut-of-date ActiveX control blocking includes four new Group Policy settings that you can use to manage your web browser configuration, based on your domain controller. You can download the administrative templates, including the new settings, from the Administrative templates (.admx) for Windows 10 page or the Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 page, depending on your operating system.
Here’s a list of the new Group Policy info, including the settings, location, requirements, and Help text strings. All of these settings can be set in either the Computer Configuration or User Configuration scope, but Computer Configuration takes precedence over User Configuration.
Important
Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking is turned off in the Local Intranet Zone and the Trusted Sites Zone; therefore, intranet websites and line-of-business apps will continue to use out-of-date ActiveX controls without disruption.
Setting | Category path | Supported on | Help text |
---|---|---|---|
Turn on ActiveX control logging in IE | Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerSecurity FeaturesAdd-on Management | Internet Explorer 8 through IE11 | This setting determines whether IE saves log information for ActiveX controls. If you enable this setting, IE logs ActiveX control information (including the source URI that loaded the control and whether it was blocked) to a local file. If you disable or don't configure this setting, IE won't log ActiveX control information. Note that you can turn this setting on or off regardless of the Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE or Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE on specific domains settings. |
Remove the Run this time button for outdated ActiveX controls in IE | Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerSecurity FeaturesAdd-on Management | Internet Explorer 8 through IE11 | This setting allows you stop users from seeing the Run this time button and from running specific outdated ActiveX controls in IE. If you enable this setting, users won't see the Run this time button on the warning message that appears when IE blocks an outdated ActiveX control. If you disable or don't configure this setting, users will see the Run this time button on the warning message that appears when IE blocks an outdated ActiveX control. Clicking this button lets the user run the outdated ActiveX control once. |
Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE on specific domains | Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerSecurity FeaturesAdd-on Management | Internet Explorer 8 through IE11 | This setting allows you to manage a list of domains on which IE will stop blocking outdated ActiveX controls. Outdated ActiveX controls are never blocked in the Intranet Zone. If you enable this setting, you can enter a custom list of domains for which outdated ActiveX controls won't be blocked in IE. Each domain entry must be formatted like one of the following:
If you disable or don't configure this setting, the list is deleted and IE continues to block specific outdated ActiveX controls on all domains in the Internet Zone. |
Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE | Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerSecurity FeaturesAdd-on Management | Internet Explorer 8 through IE11 | This setting determines whether IE blocks specific outdated ActiveX controls. Outdated ActiveX controls are never blocked in the Intranet Zone. If you enable this setting, IE stops blocking outdated ActiveX controls. If you disable or don't configure this setting, IE continues to block specific outdated ActiveX controls. |
Remove the Update button in the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking notification for IE | This functionality is only available through the registry | Internet Explorer 8 through IE11 | This setting determines whether the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking notification shows the Update button. This button points users to update specific out-of-date ActiveX controls in IE. |
If you don't want to use Group Policy, you can also turn these settings on or off using the registry. You can update the registry manually.
Setting | Registry setting |
---|---|
Turn on ActiveX control logging in IE | reg add 'HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExt' /v AuditModeEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f Where:
|
Remove Run this time button for outdated ActiveX controls in IE | reg add 'HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExt' /v RunThisTimeEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f Where:
|
Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE on specific domains | reg add 'HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExtDomain' /v contoso.com /t REG_SZ /f Where:
|
Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE | reg add 'HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExt' /v VersionCheckEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f Where:
|
Remove the Update button in the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking notification for IE | reg add 'HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersionManager' /v UpdateEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f Where:
|
You can inventory the ActiveX controls being used in your company, by turning on the Turn on ActiveX control logging in IE setting:
Windows 10: Through a comma-separated values (.csv) file or through a local Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class.
All other versions of Microsoft Windows: Through a .csv file only.
If you decide to inventory the ActiveX controls being used in your company by turning on the Turn on ActiveX control logging in IE setting, IE logs the ActiveX control information to the %LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerAuditModeVersionAuditLog.csv
file.
Here’s a detailed example and description of what’s included in the VersionAuditLog.csv file.
Source URI | File path | Product version | File version | Allowed/Blocked | Reason | EPM-compatible |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
https://contoso.com/test1.html | C:WindowsSystem32MacromedFlashFlash.ocx | 14.0.0.125 | 14.0.0.125 | Allowed | Not in blocklist | EPM-compatible |
https://contoso.com/test2.html | C:Program FilesJavajre6binjp2iexp.dll | 6.0.410.2 | 6.0.410.2 | Blocked | Out of date | Not EPM-compatible |
Where:
Source URI. The URL of the page that loaded the ActiveX control.
File path. The location of the binary that implements the ActiveX control.
Product version. The product version of the binary that implements the ActiveX control.
File version. The file version of the binary that implements the ActiveX control.
Allowed/Blocked Whether IE blocked the ActiveX control.
Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM)-compatible. Whether the loaded ActiveX control is compatible with Enhanced Protected Mode.
Note
Enhanced Protected Mode isn’t supported on Internet Explorer 9 or earlier versions of IE. Therefore, if you’re using Internet Explorer 8 or Internet Explorer 9, all ActiveX controls will always be marked as not EPM-compatible.
Reason. The ActiveX control can be blocked or allowed for any of these reasons:
Reason | Corresponds to | Description |
---|---|---|
Version not in blocklist | Allowed | The version of the loaded ActiveX control is explicitly allowed by the IE version list. |
Trusted domain | Allowed | The ActiveX control was loaded on a domain listed in the Turn off blocking of outdated ActiveX controls for IE on specific domains setting. |
File doesn’t exist | Allowed | The loaded ActiveX control is missing required binaries to run correctly. |
Out-of-date | Blocked | The loaded ActiveX control is explicitly blocked by the IE version list because it is out-of-date. |
Not in blocklist | Allowed | The loaded ActiveX control isn’t in the IE version list. |
Managed by policy | Allowed | The loaded ActiveX control is managed by a Group Policy setting that isn’t listed here, and will be managed in accordance with that Group Policy setting. |
Trusted Site Zone or intranet | Allowed | The ActiveX control was loaded in the Trusted Sites Zone or the Local Intranet Zone. |
Hardblocked | Blocked | The loaded ActiveX control is blocked in IE because it contains known security vulnerabilities. |
Unknown | Allowed or blocked | None of the above apply. |
For Windows 10 you also have the option to log your inventory info to a local WMI class. Info logged to this class includes all of info you get from the .csv file, plus the CLSID of the loaded ActiveX control or the name of any apps started from an ActiveX control.
Before you can use WMI to inventory your ActiveX controls, you need to download the configuration package (.zip file), which includes:
ConfigureWMILogging.ps1. A Windows PowerShell script.
ActiveXWMILogging.mof. A managed object file.
Before running the PowerShell script, you must copy both the .ps1 and .mof file to the same directory location, on the client computer.
To configure IE to use WMI logging
Open your Group Policy editor and turn on the Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerTurn on ActiveX control logging in IE
setting.
On the client device, start PowerShell in elevated mode (using admin privileges) and run ConfigureWMILogging.ps1
by by-passing the PowerShell execution policy, using this command:
For more info, see about_Execution_Policies.
Optional: Set up your domain firewall for WMI data. For more info, see Collect data using Enterprise Site Discovery.
The inventory info appears in the WMI class, IEAXControlBlockingAuditInfo
, located in the WMI namespace, rootcimv2IETelemetry. To collect the inventory info from your client computers, we recommend using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager or any agent that can access the WMI data. For more info, see Collect data using Enterprise Site Discovery.
This topic lists the available versions of the Common Control library (ComCtl32.dll), describes how to identify the version that your application is using, and explains how to target your application for a specific version.
This topic contains the following sections.
Support for common controls is provided by ComCtl32.dll, which all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows include. Each successive version of the DLL supports the features and API of earlier versions and adds new features.
Because various versions of ComCtl32.dll were distributed with Internet Explorer, the version that is active is sometimes different from the version that was shipped with the operating system. Therefore, your application must directly determine which version of ComCtl32.dll is present.
In the common controls reference documentation, many programming elements specify a minimum supported DLL version number. This version number indicates that the programming element is implemented in that version and subsequent versions of the DLL unless otherwise specified. If no version number is specified, the programming element is implemented in all existing versions of the DLL.
The following table outlines the different DLL versions and how they were distributed on supported OSes.
ComCtl32.dll
Version
Distribution Platform
5.81
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
5.82
Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7
6.0
Windows Server 2003
6.10
Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7
Ongoing enhancements to common controls have resulted in the need to extend many of the structures. For this reason, the size of the structures has changed between different versions of Commctrl.h. Because most of the common control structures take a structure size as one of the parameters, a message or function can fail if the size is not recognized. To remedy this, structure size constants have been defined to aid in targeting different version of ComCtl32.dll. The following list defines the structure size constants.
Structure Size Constant | Definition |
---|---|
HDITEM_V1_SIZE | The size of the HDITEM structure in version 4.0. |
IMAGELISTDRAWPARAMS_V3_SIZE | The size of the IMAGELISTDRAWPARAMS structure in version 5.9. |
LVCOLUMN_V1_SIZE | The size of the LVCOLUMN structure in version 4.0. |
LVGROUP_V5_SIZE | The size of the LVGROUP structure in version 6.0. |
LVHITTESTINFO_V1_SIZE | The size of the LVHITTESTINFO structure in version 4.0. |
LVITEM_V1_SIZE | The size of the LVITEM structure in version 4.0. |
LVITEM_V5_SIZE | The size of the LVITEM structure in version 6.0. |
LVTILEINFO_V5_SIZE | The size of the LVTILEINFO structure in version 6.0. |
MCHITTESTINFO_V1_SIZE | The size of the MCHITTESTINFO structure in version 4.0. |
NMLVCUSTOMDRAW_V3_SIZE | The size of the NMLVCUSTOMDRAW structure in version 4.7. |
NMTTDISPINFO_V1_SIZE | The size of the NMTTDISPINFO structure in version 4.0. |
NMTVCUSTOMDRAW_V3_SIZE | The size of the NMTVCUSTOMDRAW structure in version 4.7. |
PROPSHEETHEADER_V1_SIZE | The size of the PROPSHEETHEADER structure in version 4.0. |
PROPSHEETPAGE_V1_SIZE | The size of the PROPSHEETPAGE structure in version 4.0. |
REBARBANDINFO_V3_SIZE | The size of the REBARBANDINFO structure in version 4.7. |
REBARBANDINFO_V6_SIZE | The size of the REBARBANDINFO structure in version 6.0. |
TTTOOLINFO_V1_SIZE | The size of the TOOLINFO structure in version 4.0. |
TTTOOLINFO_V2_SIZE | The size of the TOOLINFO structure in version 4.7. |
TTTOOLINFO_V3_SIZE | The size of the TOOLINFO structure in version 6.0. |
TVINSERTSTRUCT_V1_SIZE | The size of the TVINSERTSTRUCT structure in version 4.0. |
The DllGetVersion function can be called by an application to determine which DLL version is present on the system.
DllGetVersion returns a DLLVERSIONINFO2 structure. In addition to the information provided through DLLVERSIONINFO, DLLVERSIONINFO2 also provides the hotfix number that identifies the latest installed service pack, which provides a more robust way to compare version numbers. Because the first member of DLLVERSIONINFO2 is a DLLVERSIONINFO structure, the later structure is backward-compatible.
The following sample function GetVersion
loads a specified DLL and attempts to call its DllGetVersion function. If successful, it uses a macro to pack the major and minor version numbers from the DLLVERSIONINFO structure into a DWORD that is returned to the calling application. If the DLL does not export DllGetVersion, the function returns zero. You can modify the function to handle the possibility that DllGetVersion returns a DLLVERSIONINFO2 structure. If so, use the information in that DLLVERSIONINFO2 structure's ullVersion member to compare versions, build numbers, and service pack releases. The MAKEDLLVERULL macro simplifies the task of comparing these values to those in ullVersion.
Note
Using LoadLibrary incorrectly can pose security risks. Refer to the LoadLibrary documentation for information on how to correctly load DLLs with different versions of Windows.
The following code example shows how you can use GetVersion
to test whether ComCtl32.dll is version 6.0 or later.
To ensure that your application is compatible with different targeted versions of a .dll file, version macros are present in the header files. These macros are used to define, exclude, or redefine certain definitions for different versions of the DLL. See Using the Windows Headers for an in-depth description of these macros.
For example, the macro name _WIN32_IE is commonly found in older headers. You are responsible for defining the macro as a hexadecimal number. This version number defines the target version of the application that is using the DLL. The following table shows the available version numbers and the effect each has on your application.
Version | Description |
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0x0300 | The application is compatible with ComCtl32.dll version 4.70 and later. The application cannot implement features that were added after version 4.70. |
0x0400 | The application is compatible with ComCtl32.dll version 4.71 and later. The application cannot implement features that were added after version 4.71. |
0x0401 | The application is compatible with ComCtl32.dll version 4.72 and later. The application cannot implement features that were added after version 4.72. |
0x0500 | The application is compatible with ComCtl32.dll version 5.80 and later. The application cannot implement features that were added after version 5.80. |
0x0501 | The application is compatible with ComCtl32.dll version 5.81 and later. The application cannot implement features that were added after version 5.81. |
0x0600 | The application is compatible with ComCtl32.dll version 6.0 and later. The application cannot implement features that were added after version 6.0. |
If you do not define the _WIN32_IE macro in your project, it is automatically defined as 0x0500. To define a different value, you can add the following to the compiler directives in your make file; substitute the desired version number for 0x0400.
Another method is to add a line similar to the following in your source code before you include the Shell header files. Substitute the desired version number for 0x0400.