A Windows XP machine can sometimes have its WINSOCK catalog corrupted and it appears like a network connection is disabled. Well, this is not always the case.
If you perform a "PING -a -n 1 127.0.0.1" this will ping the loopback connection and you should see this as the hostname reply:
pinging °ÿ with 32 bytes of data:
You will also notice that your computer will beep for some known reason?
That °ÿ is the sign that the WINSOCK catalog is corrupted, Simply drop to a coomand prompt and type the following command:
After a reboot your problems will be resolved!
If you perform a "PING -a -n 1 127.0.0.1" this will ping the loopback connection and you should see this as the hostname reply:
pinging °ÿ with 32 bytes of data:
You will also notice that your computer will beep for some known reason?
That °ÿ is the sign that the WINSOCK catalog is corrupted, Simply drop to a coomand prompt and type the following command:
"netsh winsock reset catalog"After a reboot your problems will be resolved!
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