You don't need Active Scripting (previously known as ActiveX) to see the login page.
My gut feeling is that you have some other security setting switched on in IE10 that is disabling JavaScript completely. Either that or something is wrong with your user profile in windows. Here's a post on the Microsoft forums with a similar error message, where the poster resolved his issue by creating a new user profile.
Edit: here's another post on stackoverflow that mentions this might just be an issue on your localhost or local intranet.