Can you install an ActiveX control in IE without having administrator privileges?

Question

I'm working on a web app that needs an ActiveX control to function. It installs just fine when the user has admin privileges, but fails to load otherwise. Is this by design and if so, is this documented somewhere? (preferably MSDN)

Answer 1

Complex answer: Yes. The user's account needs to be part of a group that affords the privelege of registering libraries (dll) or controls (ocx) or needs to be directly assigned the privelege.

Simple answer: No. Only accounts with the administrative privelege to install OCXs or DLLs can install Active-X controls (by default those accounts are part of the Administrators, Domain Administrators or Power Users groups).

Edit: I guess this question was changed... Yes, this is by design.

Answer 2

no

because i tried to install active x but i couldnt and i tried to istall the missing plugins but i cant it says you don`t have the administrator priveleges to install it.

Answer 3

You can if using Vista with IE8.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd433049%28VS.85%29.aspx