You misunderstood Microsoft's announcement. ActiveX controls will not be eliminated. What happened is Microsoft lost a court case regarding how ActiveX controls are launched in a browser. In some cases, the user will need to click an extra dialog to download and launch the control.

>Hi All,
> I use Crystal Report V 8.5. My clients usually downloads
>ActiveX controls on their local machines in order to run some of the reports. However, statring June Microsoft announced that their new fix will elminiate the ActiveX controls. This present a issue for me, because my clients will not be able to run the report properly.
>
> My questions are as follow:
> (1). If I was to install a higher version of Crystall, would this elminiate the ActiveX controls issue. Also the higher version of Crystall is .Net, would this cause a problem for our inhouse app written in VFP6.0?
>
> (2). If I was to remove the ActiveX controls, what capilities would I loose in Crystall.
>
> Thanks for all of your great help!!!