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ListenOnPort(),socket() failed

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everything was fine until i installed SvcPk 2 for my WinXP Pro and then uninstalled it.

after the uninstallation of Service Pack 2, upon rebooting my system, it prompted the error message – “ListenOnPort(),socket() failed”

i have try with another NIC no result, created another user profile also the same.
reinstall back the Svc Pk 2 also doesn’t help.

before i did the Svc Pk2 reinstallation, i try tp restore the system to a previous date, the operation was not able to be completed. try a few other dates also reports the same results.

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that’s weird. what is running in background? what is in event. what odd client server software might you have installed. how about adware, malware?

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I suspect that is a failure in the Winsock DLL failure due to a bad API call. Check here for more information on this issue:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/winsock/windows_sockets_error_codes_2.asp

It would help to know what else is in the event viewer log.

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