Sudden lose of network!? 1

[derekj]

Hi all,

I installed PGP Freeware on my XP box and found to my horror that it screwed up my network. I have since uninstalled it. When I boot up I get my desktop but it takes an age to start all the devices. Looking in the event viewer something called 'NetBT' fails to start. I have also found that although my network adapter is working in DEVICES if I use any network service it says that my adapter does not exist.

If I open task manager there is "no network adapter found' I have uninstalled and reinstalled my NIC but the problem is still there. Anyhing that requires TCP/IP, it seams fails to work.

Does anyone know or able to explain what's happened and can they offer a fix.

My advice is don't install PGP freeware on an XP box!!

Kind regards to you all


Derek

 

[derekj]

I forgot to mention. The event ID for this problem is 4311. Cna't find anything about this anywhere.

If I try and ping the local machine I get the following error.

'Unable to contact IP driver. error code 2'

I have tryed netsh int ip reset which is supposed to reset your ip adresses, but this didn't do anything.

Anyone?

Regards

Derek

 

[fenris]

Apparently, the networking components of PGP hosed windows XP network components.

Type this at the command prompt:
sc config ipsec start= system

See the article

http://www.mccune.cc/PGPpage2.htm#WindowsXP

for detailed explaination.
Troy Williams E.I.T.
fenris@hotmail.com