MCIWNDX.OCX failed to self register

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I have a copy of Lego Creator, it has worked without a hitch for several years but over the weekend it reported a file was missing or corrupt and it refused to load.

After many uninstall / reinstall attempts, running regclean and dxdiag and reinstalling DX 9c the install routine still fails at ‘registering ActiveX controls’ and says failed to register self registering files MCIWNDX.OCX and TEGODS.OCX. These files exist and are in the correct folders and I can find registry entries for them but Creator won’t load.

Google tells me MCWNDX.OCX is a microsoft file that came with VB 5. The only ref to tegods.ocx is on a site offering screen savers. I’ve submitted a question to Lego but I’m not hopeful of a reply.

Meanwhile, any ideas on how to manually register a self registering file that won’t self register?

stuck

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Try the following:

Select Start | Run…
Type

regsvr32 “C:…MCIWNDX.OCX”

substituting the correct and complete path
Press Enter.
If this succeeds, repeat for TEGODS.OCX.
If it fails, no idea.

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Thanks, I will try that tonight when I get home – if I can get near the PC. Meanwhile, your suggestion and Google has led me to this page which gives background on Regsvr32.exe, it looks like a handy link to have in the Lounge:
http://www.uninets.net/~blaisdel/Regsvr32Info.htm%5B/url%5D

Ken

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Doing as you suggested takes me a little further forward. The files still don’t register but the error messages returned by regsvr32 are specifically mentioned in the link I posted (GetlastError returns 0x00000485, GetLastError returns 0x00000002) so it seems that the problem is with missing dependant files.

Ken

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Sorry, this is beyond me. I hope someone else can help.

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That’s OK, I wasn’t really expecting any more from you. I was just sort of closing off this thread but if I do fianlly work out what is missing and get Lego Creator running again I’ll post back.

Thanks again for the starting point.

Ken

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YESSSS! Success. The link above that gives info on regsvr mentions a utility called depends.exe in the Win 98 resource kit. Google told me the latest version is here:
http://www.dependencywalker.com/%5B/url%5D
When I opened both of the problem ocx files with depends.exe it told me they needed mscvrt40.dll and that was missing. I got that from http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/pop.php?msvcrt40%5B/url%5D and put it into the windowssystem folder and hey presto everything works again!

Ken

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Great! Thanks for posting the solution.

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did you see me in post 567,098?

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