Fix Outlook ActiveX Error When Creating A New E-mail

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When opening a new e-mail in Outlook an error may appear:

One or more ActiveX controls could not be displayed because either:

1) Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page, or

2) You have blocked a publisher of one of the controls.

As a result, the page may not display correctly.

Most people have no idea why it suddenly starts showing up, or what changed to cause it.  Outlook itself seems to be very unhelpful in correcting it.  This error is most often caused by a problem with a created signature for Outlook.

To fix:

  1. Find where Outlook stores your signatures.
    • Vista: %userprofile%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftSignatures
    • XP-2003: %userprofile%Application DataMicrosoftSignatures
  2. Click on Start - Then RUN - and type in the appropriate line above and click OK.
  3. You should see 3 files created for your signature file (in .htm, .txt and .rtf formats). If you can’t see the file extensions, go to Tools / Folder Options / View and untick ‘Hide extensions for known file types’, or right-click the file and select ‘Properties’ to determine the file type.
  4. Open the .htm file in Notepad or another text editor
  5. go to Edit > Find and type in “object” (without quotes)
  6. You should see a line SIMILAR  to <OBJECT id=ieooui classid=clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D></OBJECT>
  7. Delete everything between and including <OBJECT> and </OBJECT>
  8. Save the file

When you go back to Outlook and create a new e-mail, you should no longer get the error message.

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    Outlook itself seems to be very unhelpful in correcting it.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you so much for this list! It is very useful for me. 

  • Anonymous

    This will be great if it will work. Thanks for sharing it.

  • http://twitter.com/finnthecelt Steve Pratt

    Thank You!!