Hi everyone, When I start my pc now Norton pops up saying "TCP/IP is not installed. Disable email scanning in your Symantec product options or install TCP/IP." I can't connect to the internet with my DSL and I also can't open up Windows Firewall. I don't use it, but when I try to open it it says that it can't open and gives me a Error 10050: Network Connection is Dead is dead or something like that. I tried netsh winsock reset, but that didn't work. I tried starting Windows Firewall from Services, but that doesn't work. I tried deleting winsock in regedit and reinstalling TCP/IP, but that doesn't work. I tried allowing my Norton Firewall to allow echo and echo reply as well, but no luck. Can someone help me with this problem please?

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Norton was on my pc already a long time before this happened and my networking was working just fine. All of a sudden I restart my pc and this happens.

I also found out that it says that my computer has lost the lease to it's ip address, and that also the DHCP is using a totally different ip address.

When I try to renew the ip in command prompt it says the RPC server is unavailable.

I went into Services and tried to start the DHCP Client because it weas turned off, but the setting was on Automatic, and it says, "Error 1075: The dependancy service does not exist or has been marked for deletion."

I followed a how to on Microsoft to delete the dependency service that doesn't exist in the registry (HK\Local Machine\System\Current Control Set\Dhcp\DependOnService, but my network says no or limited connectivity. The service was Afd.