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Problem with WINIPCFG error

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by ar032

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Hello

A doctor where I work has a laptop with a PCMIA card and the the IP is corrupt. He is running windows 98. I know in windows 95 thier is a ws2bakup where you can run and it will restore the winsock Ip from back up.

I deleted the the pcmia drivers in control panel > System and TCPIP from Network neighborhood as well. The problem is as I see it is WINSock is corrupt in windows. I seached also in windows directory for ws2bakup cant find it.
Technet for windows 98 doesnt give a solution for this. For windows 95 it says to install the winsock2 update but I cant even use that for windows 98. I wont take it.

Now I am stuck. I have deleted the orginal drivers from system Icon and deleted tcpip. Renistalled the everything like newfrom the orginal floppy disk manufacture and tcpip. I get no errors anywhere other than at WINIPCFG
Which means tcpip/winsock is corrupt.

I simply dont know what next to do. I have stumped all the other "gurus" here where I work.
Alberto Rodriguez, MCSE+I, MCDBA, CCNA

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by syscokid

Have your Windows 98 CD handy, then do Start-Run and type sfc (for System File Checker). Let it check for and repair all missing/corrupted files and see what happens.

by turambar386

Have you tried SFC? It might be worth a try.

Look in Add/Remove Programs and ensure that "winsock 2.x update" is not in there. If it is, you'll have to remove it.

After you have removed it (or if it was not there in the first place), deleteall instances of winsock.dll and wsock32.dll from the hard drive then extract new copies from the cab files.

Good luck.

by ielliott

Try looking on Microsofts knowledge base. # Q140903. Also there is a new version of winsock I believe. I ran into a problem with winipcfg before and this fixed it.

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