WinXPNews passes on this tip in case the
TCP/IP stack gets corrupted in XP.
I think I may have tried this before though and it didn't work. I wound up using some utility I found on the internet to reset it.
[5/5/05] Here it is on my hard drive. The utility is called WinsockXPFix and can be found
here.
[8/19/05] LSP-Fix is
another one to try