jococm3 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Hi,I am trying to load Railmaster onto my pc running Win7 but get the error message that MSinet.ocx or one of it's dependancies won't load. Research indicates that the msinet.ocx isn't supported in Win7. Of course being unable to load the program, I am unable to get help . Has anyone else had this problem.?...waited long enough now I really want to play ..oops ... I mean I really want to investigate the technical intricaies of Railmaster. Please help.Thanks in advance,John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 A tricky one. Only thing I can suggest before you email Hornby is check if there is more than one .exe file labelled Windows Vista, Win7 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Just thought of something else. If you look up the programme in Windows Explorer you should be able to find a help file in the programme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregd99 Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 John,Google gives some examples on how to register this thingimmybob. see http://www.viprasys.org/vb/f26/i-can-not-register-msinet-ocx-windows-7-a-386921/Agree with Poliss that you should contact hornby.if this is a general problem they will need to fix.Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jococm3 Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 poliss said:A tricky one. Only thing I can suggest before you email Hornby is check if there is more than one .exe file labelled Windows Vista, Win7 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jococm3 Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi again, Many thanks to you (both) for the prompt help. I have tried some research which suggested using regserver to fix the problem, this didn't work, I tried copying the file into the appropriate folders but it seems that my version of Win 7 just doesn't support the .ocx files which I think are some kind of activex file ( not sure though) Microsoft actually say that it no longer supports .ocx ..........and I so really want to play trains.I haven't had a chance to look into your suggestions in depth but will post again as soon as I get closer to a solution ( huh!)Thank you very much JOhn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMSTim Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 I think that old versions of Visual Basic or VB runtime cause the problem. What Brooks says seems to work. Uninstalling RailMaster then running "regsvr32 /u /s MSINET.OCX" from the Start=>Run command, then reinstalling RailMaster should do the trick.This unregisters the file and allows RailMaster to register the newer version of it.It would be interesting to know if this works for everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jococm3 Posted June 15, 2011 Author Share Posted June 15, 2011 Hi again, Thanks for all the advice, I have tried the various sggestions with no luck.It certainly seems that the .ocx file is not supported on my version of Windows and one article suggested that the software supplier should "include the runtime", so I shall contact Hornby tomoorow. Incidentally, I borrowed my wifes laptop and it has installed perfectly on there but she isnt' the understanding type i.s she doesn't understand that if I can't get it to run on my pc, she's lost her laptop. Seriously though, I will post any response from Hornby in case anyone else needs the info. Thanks again for your guidance.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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