"Dr Teeth" <no.email.here.ple***@tardis.com> wrote in message
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>I have this sporadic problem, the last time was 3 months ago.
> Suddenly, only certain PCs can only 'see' other PCs.
>
> Two of my three PCs multi-boot. XP is always the affected PC.
>
> The last time it happened I managed to fix things. I spent literally
> hours, using Chuck's excellent site, on the issue. I was not sure as
> to what actually provided the fix.
>
> Same thing happened yesterday. I remembered that the last thing I did
> was to use a TCP/IP repair tool. So, I tried it first this time.
> Problem fixed in 10 seconds.
>
> I hope this helps somebody else out there.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>
> ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
> ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
> ** out of someone who richly deserves it.

>I have this sporadic problem, the last time was 3 months ago.
>Suddenly, only certain PCs can only 'see' other PCs.
>
>Two of my three PCs multi-boot. XP is always the affected PC.
>
>The last time it happened I managed to fix things. I spent literally
>hours, using Chuck's excellent site, on the issue. I was not sure as
>to what actually provided the fix.
>
>Same thing happened yesterday. I remembered that the last thing I did
>was to use a TCP/IP repair tool. So, I tried it first this time.
>Problem fixed in 10 seconds.
>
>I hope this helps somebody else out there.

>I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "Chuck [MVP]"
><n***@example.net> opened his gob and said:
>
>>LSP / Winsock corruption is a frequent cause of network problems, and the
>>symptoms can be very scattered and inconsistent.
>
>Hi Chuck,
>
>I hope you are well and had a good Thanksgiving.
>
>The tool that I found (XP TCP/IP Repair) warns that using this tool
>should be a last resort...not anymore here <g>.
>
>As you mentioned that the problem still exists in Vista, is there a
>separate tool or command line that you can point me in the direction
>of for that OS?