PDF View OCX Control is usually used to quickly display PDF files. PDF View OCX Control provides a standalone embeddable PDF Viewer for windows application developers.
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If I can't get these ActiveX Controls to work for every user I can't use the OS, which makes spending all this money to upgrade pointless. When I opened the file in IE run as admin (under another user) it tells me the plugin is disabled, I go to enable it and it's not even in the list to enable! Gotta say so far I've been underwhelmed by Windows 2008 as a whole, the cool stuff it does doesn't counteract the hoops I've had to jump through to get some things working, and then things like this make it impossible to use in my environment. It ONLY works as local admin and not when trying to run as admin under another user. I just a second ago "shadowed" (remote controlled) a user to try running IE as Administrator, (browsed to the c:\program files\internet explorer folder, ran the exe as administrator) and see if I could then use the control, and no go. I manually registered the control and still no go. it doesn't work, again it only installs the control for the single user.
I also tried installing the swiftview ActiveX control by installing the full swiftview.
I did Change User /install and it still doesn't install for anyone but the local admin (which I'm logged in as). It works great under administrator where it was installed but any other user that logs in does not have the control installed. Since for some mysterious reason Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Microsoft Office Picture Manager, both do not want to print for any user (including the administrator) I tried to install an ActiveX Control called Alternatiff to allow IE to view Tiff images and print them. The big issue is that no matter what I do any Active X control I install only applies to the user that installs it (Administrator). I figured maybe there was a new way to do this and I found the "Install Application to Terminal Server" part of the control panel, I then found the standalone for swiftview (which the activeX addon is part of), and used the "Install app to terminal server" to run that. It installs fine, but it only works under the currently logged in user (Administrator) Not every user.
I then did what I would have done on Windows 2003 or 2000 servers and went to the site to install it. I tried doing that here by running a command prompt "run as administrator" and then did "change user /install". In older versions of terminal server if I did a change user /install as the admin and then browsed to the site I could install the ActiveX Component and it would install for all users. I was just wondering how I might install an ActiveX IE Addon for all users? My users get documents that they browse to a certain web site to retrieve and these documents view in an embedded viewer (called Swiftview).