Have you ever come across a computer that wouldn’t connect to the Internet after removing spyware or other network related software? Or maybe you can connect, but you can only visit certain sites while others time out. This problem is associated with winsock corruption in Windows XP. At this point most people reload the machine. Now you don’t have to. This utility has helped me a countless number of times so I would like to share it with you.
WinSock XP Fix
WinSock XP Fix is a utility that repairs winsock corruption in Windows XP. The utility is very easy to use. When you first run it, you will be asked to create a registry backup of your current registry settings. This is in case something goes wrong and you need to restore your registry. After this you will be prompted to apply the winsock fix.
Once the fix has been applied, you can restart your computer. After the computer restarts, the connection will be repaired.
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cw
August 7, 2007in XP/2003 you can also do this from the command-line
“netsh int ip reset c:resetlog.txt”
documented here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357
thanks
nostrals
February 1, 2009If your looking for a program to run the “netsh int ip reset” command automatically in the background.
Then download my Auto Repair Network Connection from megaupload.com/?d=HJDU7Y9M
100% Genuine
Enjoy!
realdeal
September 15, 2009The website in the above post popped up as a virus (trojan) in Avast:
megaupload.com/?d=HJDU7Y9M
nostralz
May 13, 2010the download from megaupload.com/?d=HJDU7Y9M is not a virus, avast shows the virus warning because it was scripted using vbscript, by default many anti-virus programs will alert due to the nature of the scripting language. all it does is send reset commands to netsh.exe every 60 seconds in the background
Nostralz
May 14, 2010Here is the original script used to create the application from megaupload.com/?d=HJDU7Y9M
I have posted the code because the application was being reported as a virus.
I know it was never a virus and hope you accept my apologies.
Nostrals :o)
copy and paste the following into notepad and save as Auto Repair Network Connection.vbs
MsgBox(“This application is provided without any warranty, either expressed or implied. * You run this application at your own risk! *”)
vB = MsgBox(“You are about to run ipconfig /renew (once) & then netsh int ip reset vLog.log (every 60 second’s) in the background”,1)
Dim vS , vF
Set vS = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
Set vF = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
If vB 1 Then
Set vF = Nothing
Set vS = Nothing
WScript.Quit(0)
Else
vS.Run “%Comspec% /c ipconfig /renew”, 0
WScript.Sleep 3000
Do
vS.Run “%Comspec% /c netsh int ip reset vLog.log”, 0
WScript.Sleep 60000
If vF.FileExists(“vLog.log”) then
vF.DeleteFile “vLog.log”
End if
Loop
end if
nostrals
May 14, 2010heres a cut down version
Dim vS , vF
Set vS = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
Set vF = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
vS.Run “%Comspec% /c ipconfig /renew”, 0
WScript.Sleep 3000
Do
vS.Run “%Comspec% /c netsh int ip reset vLog.log”, 0
WScript.Sleep 60000
If vF.FileExists(“vLog.log”) then
vF.DeleteFile “vLog.log”
End if
end if
nostrals
May 14, 2010heres a cut down version
Dim vS , vF
Set vS = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
Set vF = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
vS.Run “%Comspec% /c ipconfig /renew”, 0
WScript.Sleep 3000
Do
vS.Run “%Comspec% /c netsh int ip reset vLog.log”, 0
WScript.Sleep 60000
If vF.FileExists(“vLog.log”) then
vF.DeleteFile “vLog.log”
End if
TheGift73
May 26, 2010Nice script.
On a separate point, is this site still going as it is a great place for useful articles.
Casey
May 26, 2010Hi TheGift73,
I’m glad you like my blog. I’m currently on hiatus because I started a computer consulting business, however, I hope to start it back up again soon. So, keep checking back or sign up for the feed.
Thanks!
Casey
Melen
August 4, 2010I usually get a reliable registry cleaner help to fix problems like these.
Since I started using this computer utility program I rarely had similar problems. 🙂
Rob
September 24, 2011YES YES YES !!!
I had tried so many other things, to no avail.
This WORKED !!
thank you thank you thank you.
Rob
September 24, 2011oh, s**t. It worked for a few minutes. now back to the same problem. I guess I’ll try doing it again
Kristan
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