winsock problem

[Guest]

I had to get a new cable modem, however I still do no get a connections. When renewing interface with ipconfig renew, i get the message that an error occured while renewing interface 'internet': An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. Research on MS gives me KB811259 which basically says that the Winsock registry keys are damaged or corrupted and procedures to fix. In those procedures it states that the computer that you are importing ther regisry kesy form must use the same version of Windows and be similar to or a duplicate of the computer that is experiencing the behvaior that is described in the 'Symptoms' section of this article.

Can anyone expand on that? Is there any other way to fix? Or should I just reinstall windows xp?

 

[Ian Mullins]

Follow step one of the 811259 article, backing up and deleting the winsock
keys.

Restart the computer and do the following:

- open up network connections
- right click on a connectoid (Local Area Connection is fine) and choose
properties
- click install
- highlight "protocol" then click add
- click "have disk"
- in the section "Copy manufacturer's files from" type in
"<%systemroot%>\inf" (example: c:\windows\inf)
***alternatively you can browse to the inf folder (which is a hidden folder)
and select nettcpip.inf
- select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and click OK
- close the connection properties and anything else that is open and restart
the machine

When you restart the computer you should have a functional winsock key. It
will be missing some features that your original winsock keys had but it
should provide basic internet connectivity, (ideally you'd want to import a
clean version of the winsock key from functional XP machine).

Hope it helps,

- Ian

I had to get a new cable modem, however I still do no get a connections.

When renewing interface with ipconfig renew, i get the message that an error
occured while renewing interface 'internet': An operation was attempted on
something that is not a socket. Research on MS gives me KB811259 which
basically says that the Winsock registry keys are damaged or corrupted and
procedures to fix. In those procedures it states that the computer that you
are importing ther regisry kesy form must use the same version of Windows
and be similar to or a duplicate of the computer that is experiencing the
behvaior that is described in the 'Symptoms' section of this article.