Fixing Windows connection
Yesterday I found a computer that can’t connect to outside world though ping sucessful and no firewall activated.
I found this error message when triing to telnet via DOS prompt:
The requested service provider could not be loaded or initialized.
This is what I did to fix it:
1) Remove winsock and winsock2 from registry editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock22) Restart PC.
3) Go to Network connections and Right click their connection. Choose Properties.
4). Click Install.
5). Click Protocol, then click Add.
6) Click Have Disk. Type C:\Windows\inf.
7). On the list available choose Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and then click OK.
That’s it. After that the computer can happily browse Internet again.