Winsock problems

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What problem are you having? It's difficult to say without more details - Winsock on 2K/XP is pretty stable and I personally haven't run into a lot of problem with it, but I imagine it depends on what you're trying to do. If you could provide more of an explanation, I might be able to help you out.

When running internet explorer or outlook express a person is unable to browse to a page or download mail. attempted pings to url's give a response of request timed out but they are able to ping an ip. When trying to browse to a page using the IP address, the page cannot be displayed.

In Windows 95/98/ME, the fix that I've been given is to remove all network components from network neighborhood/my network places rename vip.386 vtcp.386 and vdhcp.386 to vip.old vtcp.old and vdhcp.old. Then go to the registry and back it up and remove the Winsock and Winsock 2 keys from HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services and DHCP, MSTCP, NWREDIR, Winsock, and Winsock2 keys from the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Service\VxD. Then shut down the registry editor and reboot the machine. reinstall the network components and it then works fine. This fix I am told only works in Windows 95,98,ME but not in Windows 2000 or XP. I have seen the issue arise on both OS's though and am looking for a way to fixit.