corrupted winsock in win 95?

[wxchaser]

Ran into a problem with possibly corrupted winsock, in Win 95 the other day. Is there a way to reload the TCP/IP, from the windows 95 disk? Without reloading the entire OS? Thanks in advance for any help.

[supraman4]

yes but make sure you have the win95/98 CD handy. just goto ctrl panel/network then hi-light tcp/ip then REMOVE then chose ADD/protocol/microsoft/tcp/ip then OK. but if you have corrupt winsocks you may want to verify that 1st.

win95 winsock files:
winsock.dll=42kb (there can be 2)
wsock32.dll=65kb there can only be ONE and it must be in c:\windows\system

win98 files:
winsock.dll=21kb (again 2 is fine)
wsock32.dll=40kb again only one and in win/sys.

RENAME ANY other winsock. Hope that helps. Or if you want to extract the winsock files goto MS's help site (forgot URL).

[wxchaser]

Thanks supraman4! Appreciate it, someone bombed the winscock on a box at work. Will try it out later today, thanks again. :>