Some of the programs that I run in WIN 98 that worked for many years now will not "open" files or "save" files or "save as" files. Others work fine. I thought it might be programs that were holdovers from WIN 31, but that's not it. My word processor, 602Text, won't open a file from within the program. However, if I double-click it, it will work. But then it either freezes and/or I can't save a file. A graphics program I've used for years will open a file, but not let me "save as". It never freezes.

What's odd is that each program behaves with different problems, but they are all related file open/save/save as.

This started happening around the same time I got an error message on startup:

Can't load (or register) custom control: "MSACAL70.OCX"

Further info:

After I got the MSACAL70 message, I did do a Scanreg /restore to a few days earlier, and that didn't correct it. I copied a whole set of the files found in the Windows subdirectory from a backup of a couple of months ago, and that didn't do it.

I'm stymied. Any help or solution would be appreciated. I can live with the error message on startup, annoying as it is. But the File Open/Save/Save as.. is the one I need real help with.

Thanks.

OCX files are Object Control eXtensions for OLE. (Object Linking/Embedding.) Note the info here on this file type, which lead me to here where replacement files can possibly be obtained if you have no other source. (If you don't know where it came from.) Major search engines can help in locating the file.

It's likely it was loaded for some application or device you have. It's also likely, given the file type, that it's the cause or a major contributing factor of your problem.

Try replacing the file. Follow standard security measures, scan the file etc. Rename the old one first, just in case. If you can't do it while in windows, you'll have to replace it via raw dos.

Please post back with questions/results.