Winsock Problem Determination Procedure You can determine if you have a winsock problem by doing the following.

Put in the windows XP CD and navigate to the support >Tools folder. Double click setup and do a Complete install. Click Start >run >cmd {enter} Type netdiag /test:winsock /v {enter}

To Reset the Winsock Registry Entries Click Start >Run >regedit {enter} Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock and delete it; just below that, see HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2 and delete it Exit Regedit and reboot.

To Reinstall TCP/IP To do this you need a copy of nettcpip.inf. There is one on the Windows XP CD and there may be one on your hard drive at C:\WINDOWS\inf\nettcpip.inf. Note: To see the inf folder, open My Computer and go to the menu item Tools > Folder Options... > View > and choose Show hidden files and folders. Right click "My Network Places" select Properties. Right click the connection(s) and select Properties. Click Install >Protocol >add >have disk. Browse to the location of nettcpip.inf . Select nettcpip.inf then click Open then OK then Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) then OK then Close Reboot