I found it annoying after I installed SP2 when I had to go and change all these setting to get it to let me download files and stuff again. A casual user would have no idea what to do. Ya, i guess it would be a slight advantage for a casual user though, as long as their computer isn't already FUBARed. Like my parents' computer, its mcafees subscription expired and it hasn't seen a virus definition update since like 1999. Being reckless with Active-X is probably the absolute BEST way to wreck a good computer.