Winsocks for vista

For more information view the article: How to back up and restore the registry in Windows. Resetting will delete the Winsock and recreates, which actually is reinstalling it completely. Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I was told my winsock was bad by Mozy support. I found this post looking for a method to repair it. You refer to the Vista section as the same as Windows 7 in I checked using the procedure and under the Protocol in the referenced KB article, I have the first 8 of the headings but none of the ones referencing "netbios".

Is this OK? Are you looking at step 3 of Manual steps to determine whether the Winsock2 key is corrupted for Windows Vista users? If so, what you see is probably OK. My bit Windows 7 system does. Ok, i have windows 7 ultimate and it is partitioned with my OSX on my macbook pro, I too have an issue with the Winsock corruption. It tells me that the registry keys are gone and now i cannot connect to any network application, i can however, connect to WiFi.

I have followed the steps above, and even done the fix-it option that supposedly does it for you. No luck. I have run it throught the command prompt, it being the commands yet to my immense displeasure, the winsock issue is being very obstanent despite the command saying it was successful, when i reboot, it says cannot connect to the web or any network applications. I've recently run into a bad virus which I believe has corrupted my Winsock2.

In old versions of Windows, you could easily delete the Winsock files from the registry, reboot and reinstall from the inf folder. However, this does not appear to be the same with Windows 7. My questions: 1. How do you test to determine if Winsock2 is corrupt? Isn't it like. Doesn't look like those guides are having you do much more than that. Edit: It's. Wow, at first blush and maybe in hind sight, last blush this look ed like a stump the band situation. I found this page in the 1n3rweb tubes.

See if the process does not bring winsock joy. Am I missing something on that page? You noticed or looked at the links he provided correct? You basically linked to exactly what he already has linked. He's looking for a quick little app he can fire up to automatically take these steps, so he doesn't have to manually do it when it needs doing.

Is there some reason why a. WinSockXPFix did several things, including resetting the hosts file. My bad. I did not look and carefully compare the link I provided with the "My Digital Life" pages obviously. I don't know if this would be of any help anymore to anyone here but I, a long time ago, created a simple. I just added the last part that was suggested here so I will share my entire.

Just my experience. If I ever have time soon , I will probably recode this. Until then this will have to do.

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