First problem
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I have the dreaded "Cannot register MSINET.OCX". I've spent several
hours over the past week searching not only the MS KB but also DejaNews.
I'm using VB5+SP3 on Win95, and I get the error when I try to install my
app (which uses msinet) on another Win95 machine.

I've found various references to the following suggestions:

1. replace & reregister COMCAT.DLL v6 with the working v4.71

2. install IE4 before hand

I've downgraded COMCAT.DLL, but this seems to have no effect. If I
remember to install IE4 beforehand, my app installs perfectly.

If I forget to install IE4 (this happened on one of my office machines,
when I was testing the installation), I cannot install my application.
What's more, I can no longer install IE4 - I get the "Internet is likely
busy" message when installing IE4 from CD-ROM.

Second problem
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Having got a machine in this state (i.e. trying to install my app and
its MSINET.OCX before installing IE4), I can no longer install IE4 from
CD-Rom. Instead I get the "Internet is likely busy" error. This seems
crazy, as the PC's on a LAN with no direct internet connection.

The only suggestion relating to this that I've been able to find is,

3. remove the "settings" parameter from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curren
Version\Explorer\Cabinet State and reboot (among other things)

The settings registry parameter seems to have no effect.

Can anyone shed some (brighter) light on this, please?
Cheers,
Chris
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FLARE Solutions Limited, Leeds, UK

Can you try registering MSINET.OCX with either regsvr32.exe or RegDrop
(http://www.addisonsw.com) and tell us what the error code you are getting
back is? That will be the first step in determining why it will not
register.

Kyle

MSINET.OCX couldn't be registered because the loading process failed
with error code 31 (0x1f). DllRegisterServer was not even called: "A
device attached to the system is not functioning"

1.      one of the required dependents is missing
2.      one of the dependents returned a result code of 31 (0x1f)
3.      the dll is corrupted.

I know it's not corrupted because it works on another machine happily.
It's MXINET.OCX version 5.01.4511 (September 1997), 108 Kb.

COMCAT.DLL v 4.71, at 22 Kb, is already registered successfully (I've
just confirmed this).

If I knew the dependents list I would check that all of those were
registered, but I don't  :-(

Hope this is of some use; I'm absolutely stumped!

Cheers,
Chris
--
FLARE Solutions Limited, Leeds, UK

It appears that two additional DLLs are required; these are the ones I
used:

Filename        Version         File size (bytes)
ADVAPI32.DLL    4.70.1155       43,008
SHLWAPI.DLL     4.70.1155       36,864

Once these have been installed and registered (it took me a trip via DOS
to be able to do this), I found that MSINET.OCX then worked. Of course,
YMMV.

Internet Explorer still doesn't install, but that's a task for another
day.

Chris
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FLARE Solutions Limited, Leeds, UK