All working now! Thanks!

From: Jay Mathew (JayMathew_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/19/05


Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:51:03 -0800

The whole thing mysteriously started working again! weird huh? Well I guess
thats windows for ya!
Thanks to all who read this long post! :)

"Jay Mathew" wrote:

> Hi All! I have been having this trouble this past few days and posted this
> query on the cnet boards but they haven't offered me a solution yet.
> I am using a 2 yr old AMD AthlonXP 1800+ powered PC running Win XP Home SP2.
> Also Norton Systemworks 2003 all updated thanks to the broadband connection.
>
> 3 days ago while I was browsing, my net connection just stopped. The way its
> done is that they have login window (frontend) or something where you have to
> loging to your account. But that was just not opening saying that it could
> not connect to the main ISP server.
> Finally The ISP tech came home and found out the the main antenna power plug
> had come off.
> So anyway he fixed that, he checked up everything and said the network was
> fine but apparently the Telnet service from the services window is missing
> and I cannot use the login client without that.
> There is no telnet item in the whole list of services! I havent noticed it
> before but I am guessing it was there as I have been using this broadband
> connection for the past 3 months.
> The support guy tried some things but he couldnt locate or start the telnet
> service.
> He suggested that that the only option was to reinstall windows and he
> hightailed it out of there saying the network was fine, but without the
> telnet service I couldnt log in. My original cd is WinXP Home 2002 and
> reinstallation is the last thing I want to do. To think I was in the process
> of downloading the Win update files to get ready a SP2 slipstream CD in case
> of trouble :(
> Could somebody help me out here? Is there anyway just to import that service?
> Only 2 incidents I can think of whihc may have even remotely affected my
> computer.
>
> I installed a new stick of RAM last week.
>
> Also last week during a routine AV scan Norton deleted a file called cmd.ftp
> (or something similar) bcos it was infected with the Sasser worm.
>
> P.S.
> I finally tried searching for telnet on the hard disk and i got a few
> results 3 telnet.exe in the system32, service pack backup and i386 folders,
> the telnet help files and 6 .CLASS files with Telnet in their names and also
> 3 telnet.exe.something.pf files in the Prefetch folder.
>
> I also did a search of the registry for 'telnet' and got the following
> results.
>
> 1. HKEY_USERS/S-152-a long list of numbers/Software/Microsoft/Telnet
>
> Default Value Not Set
> BSASDEL 0
> CRLF 1
> Debug Flags 0
> DELASBS 0
> Mode Console
> NTLM 1
> Prompt Flags 0
>
> 2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Control Set 1,2, 4 and Current Control
> Set/Control/NIs/MUILanguage/RCV2/telnet.exe
>
> Default Value Not Set
> 0 Long list of numbers
> 1 ditto
>
> 3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Telnet
>
> Default URL: Telnet Protocol
> Edit Flags 0x00000002 (2)
> URL Protocol
>
> 4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/tn3270
>
> Same as above
>
> Help!!
>
> Thanks
> Jay
>



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