Re: Dial-up clients drop connections-XP Home w/SP2, suspect bad regist

Hi Gary,

Try this:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Very useful in repairing the winsock stack when it is damaged by all that
malware.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Gary Levy" <levygaryb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2
>
> Had a Pc frought with hundreds of spyware occurences and numerous viruses,
> which have been
> removed using several competing products applied one at a time in safe
> mode
>
> I cannot get two unrelated Internet Service Provider dial-up products
> (Walmart's WMConnect and AOL 9.0) to maintain a connection. The software
> images are known to
> be good and operational. Both products physically synchronize with the
> respondent modem,
> authenticate, attempt to "talk to the network", then drop the connection.
> I have used alternate modems, RJ-11 jacks, and RJ-11 cables known to work
> otherwise.
>
> I have installed, de-installed, and re-installed each product without the
> presence of each other.
>
> After creating an alternate profile as a "Computer Administrator", I am
> unable to install
> software without using the default (administrator) profile.
>
> The event logs refer to IPSEC errors. Unfortunately,a search of
> support.microsoft.com produced
> nothing conclusive; e.g., knowledgebase article 328213
>
>
> I also reset the TCPIP properties as follows.
> How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP
> The NetShell utility (netsh) is a command-line tool for configuring and
> monitoring Windows XP networking. Extreme cases may warrant the removal
> of
> the TCP/IP protocol..With the NetShell utility, you can reset the TCP/IP
> stack to restore it to its state that existed when the operating system
> was
> installed. In Windows XP, a reset command is available in the IP context
> of
> the NetShell utility. When you run the reset command, it rewrites
> pertinent
> registry keys that are used by the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack to
> reach
> the same result as the removal and the reinstallation of the protocol.
>
> Command usage
> netsh int ip reset [log_file_name]
>
> To run the command successfully, you must specify a file name for the log
> where actions that are taken by netsh will be recorded
>
>
> Command samples
> netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
> netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
>
> Reference :
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q299357&sd=tech
> January 06, 2005. Microsoft Article 299357 July 12, 2004
>
>
> Short of a manufacturer system "recovery" or reformatting and reinstalling
> XP, any other suggestions?


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