I installed Borland C++, version 6 on my winxp machine. During the installation, the program asked if I wanted it to change a network system file (dll?) to one provided with C++. Not thinking, I told it yes. Everything worked fine until I clean out my temp files and now I can't access the internet. Maybe C++ put the changed dll file there? I run a home network with a dsl router on two computers. It is the host machine that I installed the C++ on. The client computer can access the internet with no problems. I run zonealarm pro and when I access the internet on either one of the machines, it would ask if it could run 3 instances of svchost.exe to access the internet. Two to access and one instance to accept connections from the internet. Now the host computer only runs one instance of svchost. Is there any way I can find what the missing dll file was and replace it (them) to regain access on the host machine? Any help would be appreciated.

Can you do a SYSTEM RESTORE or UNINSTALL Borland and then REINSTALL, this time saying NO, maybe your missing file will be recreated on the next boot.

Are you saying the host is unable to access the Internet but the client can? Any error messages or does it just not work? Try turning off or uninstalling Zonealarm.

Thanks for the help: Can't do a system restore because I did not set up restore on my system (just my luck) Re-installed the program but it did not ask to exchange the file this time. I did do a sfc with no luck. Yes, the host cannot access the internet but the client machine can...there are no error messages. I do run zonealarm but turned it off with no luck. The dsl modem icon lights up trying to access the internet but nothing comes in. The specific messages that zonealarm asks when I access the internet are: "would you like a generic host process for win32 services to act as a server? Version 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient 01 0817-1148)" "would you like a generic host process for win32 services to accept connections from the internet? Version 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient 01 0817-1147)" This is also repeated to access the local network. On the host machine, zonealarm will ask to access the internet but not to "act as a server" & "to accept connections from the internet" Could it be that C++ substituted a server client over the xpclient and when I purged the temp files, I deleted the xpclient? Of course, when I ran sfc it should have detected that and changed it back. Or maybe the substituted file is recognized as a system file? I appreciate any help you guys can give.