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by gginny 1 view

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Cannot connect to internet with browser. Outlook email working fine. Winsock diagnostic says: Error attempting to validate the Winsock base providers: 2; Not all base service provider entries could be found in the winsock catalog. A reset is needed. I have done all the resets I can find, and nothing has helped. I have also done various malware/antivirus scans and found nothing. I have deleted the network adapters - no help.
Does anyone have an answer?

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by rob miners

Did you do all of the Virus scans in Safe Mode. Click Start, Run and type cmd and press Enter. Then type netsh winsock reset at the command prompt and press Enter. The PC will want to restart.

How to determine and to recover from Winsock2 corruption in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, and in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259

by gginny

Didn't work in safe mode either. I am going to format/reinstall windows.

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