I reset I.E.9 completely to Default by using Tools/Internet Options/
Advanced tab/Reset button. I did not select the "Delete Personal SETTINGS"
box. I then re-started I.E.9 as instructed.

When I clicked on the appropriate button on the webpage for the
installation of the ActiveX necessary to use the online scanner
PandaActiveScan2.0, and the one needed for BitDefender's Quickscan,
absolutely nothing happened. In particular, the I.E.9 yellow-colored box
with the "install" button did not appear. When I did a test by downloading
a file from a different webpage, the I.E.9 yellow box with the "save"
button did appear.

Deleting my Browsing History did not solve the problem.

Please recommend a fix. Thanks.Good evening Big_Z and welcome to CH

Go to the site in question for your scan and then follow the ActiveX changes in this write up. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/149053-internet-explorer-9-activex-filtering-turn-off.html

Please let us know how you make out, Mike Hi, hartbeatmr,

Thanks for the reply.

I tried the steps at the forum webpage that you had recommended, even though I had already tried this. Even when "Active X filtering" and "Tracking Protetion" and the security tab's "Protected Mode" are turned OFF, with the rest of the Security tab settings in Default Mode, I.E. does not try to deal with, much less install, ActiveX components. I double checked the specific ActiveX settings in the Security tab, and nothing there is an impediment. Before doing that "reset procedure" that I MENTIONED in my original post (as per the Microsoft article "How to REINSTALL or Repair I.E." at{http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378}, my I.E.9 DID deal with ActiveXs.

I am still open to suggestions from you and from anyone else.

On the bright side, I did find a forum that that may turn out to be useful to me in the future.Good morning Big_Z

How did you ever make out. I totally for got about the reg fix so I had to find the url for it.

The link is a reg fix that fixes a lot of issues in IE7,IE8 and it looks like IE9 as well. He has written them for 32 and 64 bit. The reg fix does work very well and I have used them before on many different PC's. http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=48&id=133&artlang=en

If you run this I hope it works for you. It may not fix your specific issue but considering you already did a full reset of IE back to defaults it very well may.

Please let us know how you make out, Mike