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How to repair Winsock if it gets corrupt 

Nov 04, 2009 03:21 PM

About Winsock:

The Winsock is a technical specification that defines how Windows network software should access network services, especially TCP/IP. It defines a standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application (such as an FTP client or a Gopher client) and the underlying TCP/IP protocol stack.
A Windows XP machine can sometimes have its WINSOCK catalog become corrupted and it appears like a network connection is disabled. In that case one of the symptoms is, if you use the ping command, it gives you arbitary characters in the output.

example:  In command prompt, type

PING 127.0.0.1

you will see the reply

pinging °ÿ with 32 bytes of data

That °ÿ is the telltale sign that the WINSOCK catalog is corrupted.

You can use the netsh command utility to repair the winsock. Please enter the following command in the command prompt:

netsh winsock reset catalog

Reboot the machine. The issue will be resolved.

The command above, will reset winsock catalog back to default setting or clean state. You can try this if you are having following Internet access or networking problems but still failing to resolve the problem after trying all other suggestions

  • Internet or network problem after removing the adware, spyware, virus, worm, trojan horse, etc
  • Loss network connection after installing/uninstalling adware, spyware, antispam, vpn, firewall or other networking programs
  • Unable to access any webpage or can only access some webpages
  • Pop-up error window with network related problem description
  • No network connectivity due to registry errors
  • DNS lookup problem
  • Fail to renew the network adapter’s IP address or other DHCP errors
  • Network connectivity issue with limited or no connections message
  • Other networking problems

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