PiotrW, try to restore registry, or reinstall your netcard, or use WinSock XP Fix.
Hello Damian,
Good news! I’ve managed to get my Internet connection running by following Calambo’s advice (on the other thread) regarding modifying the registry fixes. So far, everything looks to be working all right…
Anyway, thank you for your time!
BTW. A question: should the BITS service be set as “Automatic”? After I used the modified registry fixes, my Internet was back - even though BITS was still set as “Manual”… So, is the change you suggested necessary? Just out of curiosity…
BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) is required for windows update (WU), without it it won’t update. It is normally set to Automatic.
However, I too have mine set to manual as I no longer use windows update preferring to manually download the updates I need to install off-line.
I don’t know if the WU is smart enough to start BITS if it isn’t running when you visit or if it can being a remote location, so you may have to set it to Auto if you use WU. You could leave it on manual and test it on the next patch Tuesday (10 June 2008) and see if WU works. If not change it to Auto and Start it.