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If you have ever gotten rid of a spyware or messed around with a firewall application and lost connection to the internet due to some winsock error, this tool is for you.

It is called winsock xp fix 1.2

BACKGROUND

If you’re wondering why I’m talking about the thing that tell airplanes what speed and direction the wind is blowing, you’re not alone. Winsock is simply a shortened name for windows socket api which tells how windows networks should access the networks services. In the internet age, the specific service we’re interested in is TCP/IP. TCP/IP is the set of communications protocols that the internet need to talk from one computer to another.

When I was still working on windows 98 and early versions of XP, I devised my own quick and dirty way of fixing winsock errors.

SOLUTION

I simply deleted winsock.dll , wsock32.dll, and wsock32n.dll in the /windows directory. Then I typed in ‘regedit’ in the run command box and navigated to hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\winsock2 and deleted everything in that branch.

What this did was made windows restore those files in the next boot-up to their default settings which incidentally fixed any errors that it may have incurred.

Again the site to get the winsock fix program is:

http://majorgeeks.com/download4372.html