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A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides a central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. It helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. It is also dynamic and interactive making the members of the site contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment on or contribute to other people’s work and idea.

When you launch your SharePoint site as a public site which has access for random users, you might experience this problem that when you open to a new page on your browser, it will prompt you to approve an active x component.

For new users or visitors of your site, this can be a little frightening to just approve something that pop-out. Take note that people do not know that this is your SharePoint site so approving anything might not make sense to them.

We do not actually need this functionality, so here are the steps to fix this:

  1. Go into your central administration on your server.
  2. Go under general settings.
  3. Change "Personal name, actions and present setting" option to NO.
  4. Click Ok.
  5. Go back to the browser and go to a new page

You will see that there will no longer be an active x component prompted.

This is just out of the box setting in central administrator. You don’t need to do anything with your script to fix it.

Further details on how to do this step can be seen on this website:
http://blog.drisgill.com/2010/02/removing-name-activex-control-warning.html