

For Windows XP Users, Arellia offers the following solution ActiveX objects Solution Open Internet Explorer 11 and click the Tools menu, then select the command Compatibility View settings.In Windows Vista/7 standard users are unable to install ActiveX plug-ins. Therefore I fired up Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 7 machine and processed the steps given at this Microsoft article.ġ. To make Microsoft's ActiveX controls work, needs to be registered as secure in the compatibility list of IE 11. Adding Microsoft to Compatibility View settings It's required to 'add the the installed Windows Update Vista Web Control to the Internet Explorer 11 Compatibility View list'. Shortly after publishing the German blog post, I received comments, that a Silverlight install isn't necessary. That's the reason, why I proposed to install Silverlight to recover missing update options. I wasn't aware of this, because I didn't received an error message in IE 11. IE 11 blocks ActiveX controls, until they are listed within a compatibility list. But downloading and installing Windows Update Vista Web Control isn't sufficient. Therefore I wrote a second article Windows 7: Fix broken Update (Error 0x80248015) 12/4/17 explaining the steps to install Windows Update Vista Web Control in Windows 7 Internet Explorer 11. But not all systems was able to load that fix.

I've addressed this issue within my blog post Windows 7: Error 0x80248015 in Update Search (Dec. The update search stalls with error code 0x80248015.

On December 4, 2017, many Windows 7 SP1 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) users discovered that they could no longer check for updates.
