Active X disabled itself?

[coomarlin]

Went to check my gmail today and I get

Gmail requires ActiveX controls to be enabled

Your browser seems to be Internet Explorer, and ActiveX seems to be disabled. Gmail's standard view requires ActiveX to be enabled in order to operate.

To use Gmail's standard view, enable ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer. You can do this by going to the Tools menu, selecting Internet Options, Security tab, Internet zone, and either select the Default Level, or selecting Custom Level and scrolling down to "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins" and selecting Enable.

After enabling ActiveX controls, try again.

When I go to another sites that use activex I keep getting the "your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page," message on various webpages (using IE7) despite having my security permissions to medium, (which is the default). I can't figure out what would be causing it.

What would cause this to happen all of a sudden? I worked fine last night and I haven't messed with it any today.

 

[coomarlin]

Bump for any help at all.

My security levels are still set at the default settings. I never touched a thing.