Consider the following scenario. You try to deploy some ActiveX controls on a network. In order to deploy and update these ActiveX controls in a standard user environment, you use the ActiveX Installer service on the client computers. However, you may be unable to install the ActiveX controls in a standard user environment. Additionally, an event that resembles the following is logged in the Application log:

Log Name: Application
Source: AxInstallService
Date: Data
Event ID: 4100
Description: Failed to download ActiveX control

Note: This issue occurs only when you use NTLM authentication between the client computer and the proxy server. The issue does not occur if you use Kerberos authentication.

In this scenario, you must log on to the computer as an administrator and then install the ActiveX controls without using the ActiveX Installer Service.

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Consider the following scenario:

• You configure the system to audit object access in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, or in Windows Vista.
• At a command prompt, you delete a file that has a long file name.

In this scenario, the Object Name field in audit event ID 560 incorrectly displays the name of the deleted file in an 8.3 file name format.

For example, audit event ID 560 may resemble the following:

Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Object Access
Event ID: 560
Date: Date
Time: Time
User: UserName
Computer: ComputerName
Description:
Object Open:
Object Server: Security
Object Type: File
Object Name: Drive:\Path\Sample~1.EXE
New Handle ID: 92
Operation ID: {0,16979818}
Process ID: 1960
Primary User Name: UserName
Primary Domain: DomanName
Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x19116)
Client User Name: -
Client Domain: -
Client Logon ID: -
Accesses DELETE
ReadAttributes
Privileges –

When you delete a file that has a long file name in Windows Explorer, the Object Name field in audit event ID 560 displays the complete file name as expected.

You have a Windows Vista-based computer that supports High Precision Event Timer (HPET). When you restart the computer, the system time that is displayed on the clock lags behind the actual time. After you restart the computer several times, the system time lags behind the actual time even more.