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| Thread ID: 58772 | 2005-06-11 12:20:00 | Thought I would share this with you. | Trev (427) | Press F1 |
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| 363155 | 2005-06-11 12:20:00 | Hi All All day Wednesday and Thursday and half of Friday I had a slow internet connection. I'm on ADSL. Anyway the strange thing about it was that my D/L speeds were okay and playing VSK3 on the net was alright. It was my browsing that was slow, about 5 mins to bring up a page. About one oclock yesterday I rang up my ISP and I told the support person the situation and that I had run 3 differant spyware programes, and NAV, with the latest definitions and they had come up clean. He then told me to go through the procedure of repairing the Winsock2.dll as describe in the article below, and it fixed my problem. Trevor :) Repairing Damaged Winsock2 Updated 6/26/04 The symptoms when Winsock2 is damaged show when you try to release and renew the IP address using IPCONFIG. And you get the following error message: An error occurred while renewing interface 'Internet': An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. Also Internet Explorer may give the following error message: The page cannot be displayed Additionally, you may have no IP address or no Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) address, and you may be receiving IP packets but not sending them. There are two easy ways to determine if Winsock2 is damaged: From the XP source files, go to the Support / Tools directory Winsock Test Method 1 Run netdiag /test:winsock The end should say Winsock test ..... passed Winsock Test Method 2 1. Run Msinfo32 2. Click on the + by Components 3. Click on the by Network 4. Click on Protocol 5. There should be 10 sections if the Winsock2 key is ok MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] RSVP UDP Service Provider RSVP TCP Service Provider MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... If the names are anything different from those in this list, then likely Winsock2 is corrupted and needs to be repaired. If you have any 3rd party software installed, the name MSAFD may be changed. There should be no fewer than 10 sections. To repair Winsock2 1. Run Regedit 2. Delete the following two registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Winsock HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Winsock2 Download Reg file to delete these entries 3. Restart the computer 4. Go to Network Connections 5. Right click and select Properties 6. Click on the Install button 7. Select Protocol 8. Click on the Add button 9. Click on the Have Disk button 10. Browse to the \Windows\inf directory 11. Click on the Open button 12. Click on the OK button 13. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) 14. Click on the OK button 15. Reboot |
Trev (427) | ||
| 363156 | 2005-06-11 12:44:00 | This is a very common problem and usually shows up by not being able to load any web sites at all. It is easier to run the winsock fix if you can download it. www.snapfiles.com |
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| 363157 | 2005-06-11 22:19:00 | Thanks for that Safari. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 363158 | 2005-06-11 23:19:00 | It is easier to run the winsock fix if you can download it. www.snapfiles.com So that winsockfix does exactly the same as what Trev has posted, for all Windows versions? |
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| 363159 | 2005-06-11 23:34:00 | No just Xp | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 363160 | 2005-06-11 23:52:00 | No just XpOops, I forgot to come back and edit my post after visiting that site. It is indeed just for WinXP. This page (www.cexx.org) is where I get my Winsock repair utilities from. It caters for all Windows versions. I think it ought to be clarified which version/s of Windows that the instructions Trev has posted is for. |
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| 363161 | 2005-06-12 05:08:00 | Hi All All day Wednesday and Thursday and half of Friday I had a slow internet connection. I'm on ADSL. Anyway the strange thing about it was that my D/L speeds were okay and playing VSK3 on the net was alright. It was my browsing that was slow, about 5 mins to bring up a page. About one oclock yesterday I rang up my ISP and I told the support person the situation and that I had run 3 differant spyware programes, and NAV, with the latest definitions and they had come up clean. He then told me to go through the procedure of repairing the Winsock2.dll as describe in the article below, and it fixed my problem. Trevor :) Repairing Damaged Winsock2 Updated 6/26/04 The symptoms when Winsock2 is damaged show when you try to release and renew the IP address using IPCONFIG. And you get the following error message: An error occurred while renewing interface 'Internet': An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. Also Internet Explorer may give the following error message: The page cannot be displayed Additionally, you may have no IP address or no Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) address, and you may be receiving IP packets but not sending them. There are two easy ways to determine if Winsock2 is damaged: From the XP source files, go to the Support / Tools directory Winsock Test Method 1 Run netdiag /test:winsock The end should say Winsock test ..... passed Winsock Test Method 2 1. Run Msinfo32 2. Click on the + by Components 3. Click on the by Network 4. Click on Protocol 5. There should be 10 sections if the Winsock2 key is ok MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] RSVP UDP Service Provider RSVP TCP Service Provider MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip... If the names are anything different from those in this list, then likely Winsock2 is corrupted and needs to be repaired. If you have any 3rd party software installed, the name MSAFD may be changed. There should be no fewer than 10 sections. To repair Winsock2 1. Run Regedit 2. Delete the following two registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Winsock HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Winsock2 Download Reg file to delete these entries 3. Restart the computer 4. Go to Network Connections 5. Right click and select Properties 6. Click on the Install button 7. Select Protocol 8. Click on the Add button 9. Click on the Have Disk button 10. Browse to the \Windows\inf directory 11. Click on the Open button 12. Click on the OK button 13. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) 14. Click on the OK button 15. Reboot Sorry forgot tp put what OS. This is for Windows Xp Trevor:) |
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