For some reason, it seems that last week's mandatory update to IE9 has broken my access to most of the online tools that I have to use for work. The culprit, as far as I have been able to tell, has been either the addition of ActiveX filtering to IE9 or the changing of my settings for it. Since I am not allowed access to the security settings for IE, I had to find a workaround, and it turns out that whenever IE9 gets to a site that has ActiveX, it presents a button next to the usual buttons on the top right corner that allows ActiveX to be temporarily enabled. Efforts to find a way to simply turn it back on continuously using registry editing have so far not been successful.
My last google for this did reveal that I have access to several security settings options through the "gear" icon in the top right corner. From: http://www.aboutfortunate.com/Technology-Blog.aspx?entid=39
