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by greg.....

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I am running windows 200 prof, with pc-cillan anti-virus software. For some reason I had an initial error of unable to initialize windows sockets. This was related to pc-cillan. I have uninstalled the anti-virus software and these errors have dissapeared. Now the problem is whenever I try to ping anything I get an error saying "unable to initialize windows sockets interface, error code 0". I am unable to get a network connection through a dial up connection or on a network. Any suggestions?

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by ann777

Do you have another Win2000Pro workstation handy?

Re-install the service pack on your computer... or pull up the following four files from another workstation and place them in the proper directories

Winsock.dll
Wsock32.dll
Ws2_32.dll
Ws2help.dll

by ann777

\winnt\system32 is the proper directory.

I also suggest that you delete any other versions of these files that you may find in other directories.

by curtis

Go to Start, Settings, Network and Dial-up Settings. Open your LAN connection and then click the Properties Button.
In the Components area click once on the Internet Protocol and then click Uninstall.

Reboot when prompted and go back to the LANproperties page when the system comes back up. Click Install and re-install the Internet Protocol.
Delete any dial-up connections and re-configure them before or after removing the Internet Protocol.
This should end your sockets errors. If you have mapped network drives you will get errors about not being able to connect, they may have to be remapped also.

hope this helps ...

by curtis

Delete any dial-up connections before uninstalling the Internet Protocol and re-configure them after reinstalling the Internet Protocol.

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