vincelee.net » stopped working http://www.vincelee.net web design, development and general chicanery Mon, 24 May 2010 09:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Vista Internet Death http://www.vincelee.net/2009/06/30/vista-internet-death/ http://www.vincelee.net/2009/06/30/vista-internet-death/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:50:03 +0000 Vince http://www.vincelee.net/?p=35 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:

  1. Open up command prompt (start menu > search ‘cmd’)
  2. type in ‘netsh winsock reset’

Restart the machine, and everything was back to normal!

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