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    Winsock Weirdness

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by 84CubsFan, Oct 8, 2008.

  1. 84CubsFan

    84CubsFan Notebook Consultant

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    Specs: Lenovo t61, T9300 chipset, NVIDIA quadro 140m nvs GPU, Intel 4965 AGN, with Windows XP.

    After file sharing (Azureus/Vuze torrent -- legally!), I often notice that my power management (using Thinkvantage Power Manager) stops working properly. I have it set to shut off the monitor after five minutes of idle and, all of a sudden I notice that it no longer shuts off. When I shut off the monitor manually, it flickers back on after 45 seconds or so. So, okay, there is something that makes the system think it's still in use, right?

    What seems to fix the error is when I run the netsh winsock reset catalog command and restart. All seems to work properly after that. This leads me to the following questions:

    1) Is it a coincidence that the winsock reset solves the problem?
    2) Am I doing any damage to my computer resetting the catalog, say, once a week?
    3) Is it possible that the file sharing program is damaging my computer/wireless card in another way?
    4) If I upgrade to Vista (Business 32), would I likely see this problem again?
    5) Is there a similar winsock catalog reset command in Vista?

    Thanks for any and all answers!
     
    84CubsFan, Oct 8, 2008
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    1-doubt it
    2-no
    3-i think it (the program) is not shutting down and maintaing open active connections
    4-don'tknow
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    netsh winsock reset = Repair and Reset Vista TCP/IP Winsock Catalog Corruption
    netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt = resets TCP/IP Internet Protocol stack
     
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    Many thanks! Extremely helpful.
     
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    to expound, resetting the ip stack is causing the program to disconnnect.

    What p2p program are you using?
     
    gerryf19, Oct 9, 2008
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