When Internet Explorer navigates to a page which requires an ActiveX control or Java code that is not already on the machine, ...

When Internet Explorer navigates to a page which requires an ActiveX control or Java code that is not already on the machine, a sequence of URLs are searched for the required item. The URLs it searches are determined by the code download path. By changing or adding to the code download path, you can maintain your own directory of ActiveX controls and Java code common to your corporation.