Winxp Pro

**jsigmon** · August 23rd, 2006, 10:44 AM

Come to find out in windows XP you can no longer uninstall TCP/IP you can only reset the stack with a command line. Has any one been able to uninstall TCP/IP if so how. Per MS web site can't be done apart of the OS now and is grayed out you can install another TCP/IP but gives you ver 6.

**geoscomp** · August 23rd, 2006, 11:40 AM

Nope..can't be done. version 6 has been part of XP since sp1 though. There are a few tools out there that can rebuild the stack though..winsockxpfix is the one I use all the time, and you can get it a lot of places, including here:
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/...re/repair.html

**slgrieb** · August 23rd, 2006, 02:39 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817571/en-us lets you remove corrupted winsock entries from the registry and re-install TCP/IP over itself. This sometimes works better than repair tools like winsockxpfix, LSPFix, etc.

***SlyVenom*** · September 11th, 2006, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by slgrieb

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817571/en-us lets you remove corrupted winsock entries from the registry and re-install TCP/IP over itself. This sometimes works better than repair tools like winsockxpfix, LSPFix, etc.

I have to second that,
been very usefull many a time.
Although sometimes with serious DNS issues
I've only been able to fix it with an OS repair.