Corrupt Winsock.dll And Wsock32.dll - Can't Connect To The Internet Through Dialup
Aug 9, 2007
I just recently had to get rid of a virus, and even though multiple virus check software says that I'm clean, I'm still having trouble in that I can't connect to the internet through dialup anymore. Looking through avasts log shows that kernel32.dll, winsock.dll, and wsock32.dll were all infected, so I believe that there is residual corruption on these files. Because I can't just replace kernel32.dll, I was wondering if there was a way I could fix both winsock.dll and winsock32.dll. I have my xp reinstall disk and was thinking maybe I could extract it from there, but have no idea how to do this.
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Aug 10, 2005
I recently installed Win XP Professional and have a question about User
accounts.My computer is a standalone PC with 5 users. No network. I connect to
the internet using dialup. I have a lot of older software, and games too, and I read see over and over that you have to have administrator privileges to run them.From messing around in Linux in the past, I know that it can be a bad
thing for everyone to be logged in on administrator accounts. Even the
XP help files say that you should only log in as administrator when you
absolutely have to. My problem is that the "Limited" account is too
limited, and the "Administrator" account is too open.
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Jun 24, 2005
I recently reinstalled Windows XP Home on a friends computer, but when I went
to create their dialup connection to the internet, I couldn't.I went into the 'Internet Connection Wizard'. Told it that I was connecting directly to the internet. Then I told it I was going to set up the connection manually. But whenever the option comes up to setup a dial-up or broadband connection, the dial-up option is greyed out and unselectable.In device manager, it shows my modem as being fine. It's installed with no conflicts.
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Sep 24, 2007
I keep getting the following message: The application or DLL E:WINDOWSsystem32SHFOLDER.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette. I also keep getting the following message: The application or DLL E:WINDOWS system32WSOCK32.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
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After long periods of my internet connection being idle (2+ hours usually), all programs requiring internet access are unable to connect. By idle I mean I leave to run some errands with no programs other than Zone Alarm running. My DSL modem still has all lights flashing and active. There are a couple other scenarios where this occurs as well. Ex. I'm playing WoW for extended periods but not using the internet through any other program, then upon alt-tabbing no other applications are able to connect to the internet even though WoW is still connected and functioning. Rebooting the router/modem doesn't fix it, but rebooting the comp does.
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Aug 15, 2007
i have a dell desktop windows xp sp2 and i had gotten a virus and cleaned it out after i got it out of the system i ended up with no internet connection i keep going to the command prop and typing in the command line to reset winsock and it dosent seem to work i also used a couple programs to try to fix the problem i know its winsock because in the command prob when trying to renew my ip address it says error connecting to rps server or something like that i also talked to road runner tech support and got it narrowed down to being a winsock problem i don't know what to do there is no subnet mask address or ip address and the computer doesnt seem to want to co-operate with me for anything ive tryed safe mode and just normal startup mode the only thing i can think to do is fdisc and reformat the HDD and i cant even do that because i lost my windows xp disc and there is no recovery partition on the hdd any ideas on what happened or how to fix this?
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Aug 20, 2007
I'm running a Dell Inspiron E1505. My wireless was having a problem. I followed the steps outlined in this post. ://forums.techguy.org/networking...-internet.html Mainly I went into command prompt and did the following: Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log When I went to restart my computer wouldn't turn on! The power light is illuminated, the CD drive clicks once, but other than that nothing happens.
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I am on a cable modem running W2K pro sp2 on a Dell 4400. My cable modem checks out OK as well as my ethernet card. There are no viruses or spyware in the computer as I checked that today. I've been thru level 2 tech support with my ISP and they are saying that the problem lies within the computer. When I open my browser I get the error msg page cannot be displayed and I cannot access any web page
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my computer crashed and I reinstalled windows xp then used the duracom recovery disc. Now i can't connect to internet,they tell me to copy drivers to disc, but don't understand how to do this or what to download to disc to reinstall to my other computer
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Apr 7, 2009
I'm dealing with the following issue:
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- The computer has been rebooted numerous times
- The internet is known to be working because I'm posting from it.
The computer runs Windows XP SP2 is connected by ethernet to the router. The windows firewall has been disabled.
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how do I able a function which would connect the PC to the internet on startup?
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Aug 30, 2007
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