Hello, perhaps someone could help me with this. Not to long ago i had removed some programs through the control panel, and after i had rebooted i lost my connection to the internet via RoadRunner cable modem and a hawkings 4 port switch, Anyhow.. When i had rebooted a error dialog box popped up, the title of the box was WINUPD32.exe and the error was "can't create new socket" and that box itself will keep popping up one after another, to me that seems like my comp. trying to est. a connection to my cable modem or some where around that. When i open up IE i get "Page can not be displayed" and all the way at the bottom it says DNS error.. ect.. I've re-installed my TCP/IP in my network area in Control panel. I've re-installed IE 5.5, Tried using the repair tool, checked my all my winsock files for matching size. (im running win98) i've called RoadRunner for 4 days now and have talked to they're level 3 specialist.. but to no avail.. one tech was sure that if i did a clean-reinstall of win98 itself that would correct the problem, EH wrong.. same problem.. When I jump to dos, I can Ping websites by url and address, also tracert... When one of the Tech's tried to ping my IP, hey notified me that he couldn't and i might have a firewall, well i know i dont have a firewall because it was just working fine 5 days ago.. Anyhow.. im at the end of the rope.. im trying to think of everything else that's figuring into whats wrong.. because i have no idea plz Help!!! -Shawn.

DId you at some time let windows update foist off that silly critical update notifaction applet on your machine? The one that wanted to checke for critical updates every few minutes, sometime even when no connection was available. I recall an exe similar in name to that ,being part of what I cleared out of 98. Windows update (regular) is done by ' wupdmgr.exe '. Try moving that WINUPD32.exe out of the windows folder, or renaming it WINUPD32.OLD, to temporarily drop it out of the system. Reboot, repairIE with the IE repair tool in controll panel, add/remove, and see if you can get things sorted form there.