TCP/IP stack messed up after installing AOL 7.0

Almighty1

Almighty1

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Speaking about Internet issues. Has anyone seen a problem like this one before... On one of my friends machine, he was using AOL 6.0 but then updated to AOL 7.0 on a Win98 machine. For some reason, while the AOL service would connect. The TCP/IP stack seems to be severely broken since they can ping and traceroute but anything else like browsers, ftp,
telnet seems to run into a blackhole as it will seem as if the connection is down since none of the traffic is hitting the connection. Even when using a non ISP, the TCP/IP seems to fail during the authentication process. I've helped him remove the tcp/ip stack by editing the registry and removing the Dial Up Networking and even updating to Win98SE but the problem still remains... I've tried using a ethernet connection but the
problem is still ping/traceroute but all other connections fails.
 
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LTR12101B

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Not sure if this will replace the TCP/IP stack =- the MS DUN 1.4 update.
h**p://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3BQ285189
 
Almighty1

Almighty1

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Hmmm, I think that only replaces the Dial Up Adapter portion but not the entire TCP/IP stack since even using the Ethernet messes it up... :(
 
Almighty1

Almighty1

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Nah, that has nothing to do with it. I figured it out though. The problem is that AOL 7.0 installed a 16 bit TCP/IP stack on the system and even upgrading windows didn't fix it when I went to WinME. The way to fix it is use the registry editor and delete the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2

and then goto add/remove programs and delete dial up networking and then reinstall everything in communications that is not installed and reboot and everything works again.
 
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