Cannot Release/Renew IP Address

[Guest]

When I attempt to release and renew my IP address (XP Home Edition), I
receive the windorw error message "An operation was attempted on something
that is not a socket"

Please Help!

Mark

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Greetings Marco,

Please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article.

You receive an "An operation was attempted on something that is not a
socket" error message when you try to connect to a network
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817571

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Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com