Win 9X Dial-Up Client & Control Panel Configurations

Winsock/Wsock32 Jump Page

You either have VERY erratic connections or you can't surf or e-mail at all. You've reinstalled DUN, TCP/IP and the dial-up adapter but you still can't do anything more than connect. What do you do? Try reinstalling Winsock.

Wsock32.dll and winsock.dll are both winsock. The older winsock.dll is a 16-bit app that was used in Win 3.X and Win95a. Microsoft came out with OSR2 Win95b versions that replaced winsock.dll with wsock32.dll which is a 32-bit version of winsock. The vast majority of people use the newer wsock32.dll because the original version doesn't work very well. All Win98 boxes use the newer wsock32.dll.

Choose the version of operating system that needs a winsock reinstallation:

• Winsock.dll (Win95a)
• WSock32.dll (Win95b a/k/a OSR2)
• WSock32.dll (Win98) (system file checker route)