Repairing Damaged Winsock2 The symptoms when Winsock2 is damaged show when you try to release and renew the IP address using IPCONFIG... And you get the following error message: "An error occurred while renewing interface 'Internet': An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket." Also Internet Explorer may give the following error message: "The page cannot be displayed Additionally, you may have no IP address or no Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) address, and you may be receiving IP packets but not sending them." There are two easy ways to determine if Winsock2 is damaged: From the XP source files, go to the Support / Tools directory Winsock Test Method 1 Run netdiag /test:winsock The end should say Winsock test ..... passed Winsock Test Method 2 Run Msinfo32 Click on the + by Components Click on the by Network Click on Protocol There should be 10 sections if the Winsock2 key is ok MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] RSVP UDP S...