{"id":1760,"date":"2008-03-27T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obieta.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-03-27T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:17:14","slug":"repair-and-reset-windows-vista-tcpip-winsock-catalog-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Repair and Reset Windows Vista TCP\/IP Winsock Catalog Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCP\/IP stack Winsock settings in Windows Vista<\/a> may get corrupted, causing errors and problems with Internet connectivity<\/a>. Corrupt Winsock or Windows sockets configuration can be due to a lot of reasons such as installation<\/a> of a networking software, or due to virus, trojan or malware infection, or sometime even due to disinfection of spyware by security software.
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\nWhen Winsock corrupts, the networking errors that you may face include unable to surf the Internet with \u201cPage cannot be displayed\u201d error message in Internet Explorer or AOL even though the DSL\/ADSL\/cable Internet connection is connected<\/a>. Sometimes, Windows Firewall\/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service is terminated as well.<\/p>\n

To repair and reset the Windows Vista<\/p>\n

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  1. Click on Start button.<\/li>\n
  2. Type Cmd<\/strong> in the Start Search text box.<\/li>\n
  3. Press Ctrl-Shift-Enter<\/strong> keyboard shortcut to run Command Prompt as Administrator. Allow elevation request.<\/li>\n
  4. Type netsh winsock reset<\/strong> in the Command Prompt shell, and then press the Enter key.<\/li>\n
  5. Restart the computer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What netsh winsock reset command does are it resets Winsock Catalog to a clean state or default configuration. It removes all Winsock LSP (Layered Service Providers) previously installed<\/a>, including the potential malfunctioned LSP that causes loss of network packets transmission failure. So all previously-installed LSPs must be reinstalled. This command does not affect Winsock Name Space Provider entries.<\/p>\n

    Note: To check which LSPs installed on your Vista system, use netsh winsock show catalog<\/strong> command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    TCP\/IP stack Winsock settings in Windows Vista may get corrupted, causing errors and problems with Internet connectivity. Corrupt Winsock or Windows sockets configuration can be due to a lot of reasons such as installation of a networking software, or due to virus, trojan or malware infection, or sometime even due to disinfection of spyware by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}