Vista Internet Death
by Vince on Jun.30, 2009, under Computing
Over the past week or so, I had been experiencing a very poor internet connection on my main machine. Having just renewed my ISP contract with *ahem* AOL (it was cheap!), I was all ready to go postal on their useless support staff.
However, after a quick check with my laptop and newly acquired g1, I found the internet and wireless was working fine. Yesterday, any Internet connected applications were just failing completely, giving me the ‘xxx has stopped working’ dialog box. A quick search on the g1 came up with the following fix:
- Open up command prompt (start menu > search ‘cmd’)
- type in ‘netsh winsock reset’
Restart the machine, and everything was back to normal!
October 11th, 2009 on 12:11 am
The vista PC at work has been really slow especially on the new. Will have to try this to see if it makes a difference. I reckon vista is just crap in general though personally.
PS: AOL?! Have you no shame?!
October 12th, 2009 on 7:55 pm
hi dan, how’s tricks?
yes, i have been using windows 7 for a bit now – seems much quicker, no constant hard-drive access, and some of the features quite useful.
re aol: to be fair, i’ve not had any trouble with it – not installed any of their software. its pretty cheap and reliable. isn’t it the same as talk talk?
what are you up to nowadays?