Check out the sidebar options (top-most down-pointing arrow) to add/remove panels. Click the "Show ActiveX Plugin" and there you go, you can IE, Media Player (ok, bad examples) or whatever ActiveX you want to your sidebar. Nice. I know, ActiveX sucks on lots of points, nevertheless this is a very clever addition to the sidebar. Lots of apps are instantly "compatible" with it. You can see the end result here