{"id":505,"date":"2011-03-17T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:51:13","slug":"activex-error-appears-in-outlook-after-you-just-edited-your-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"ActiveX error appears in Outlook after you just edited your signature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ActiveX error appears in Outlook after you just edited your signature<\/p>\n<p>Go to C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Signatures<\/p>\n<p>Make a backup of the files that are in there.<\/p>\n<p>Edit the .htm version of the signature in notepad (Don\u2019t use Word as that\u2019s what creates this problem in the first place).<\/p>\n<p>Look for an Object tag, for example:<\/p>\n<p><code> OBJECT id=ieooui classid=clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And remove it. Now save the file. Open Outlook and start a new e-mail with your sig in. The ActiveX error should now have gone.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>If the user has redirected folders on then their signature will be on the server like the following:<\/p>\n<p>\\\\SERVERNAME\\SHAREFOLDER\\USERNAME\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Signatures<\/p>\n<p>May need to make hidden folders visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ActiveX error appears in Outlook after you just edited your signature Go to C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAME\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Signatures Make a backup of the files that are in there. Edit the .htm version of the signature in notepad (Don\u2019t use Word as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[110,25],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-activex","tag-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}