SOLUTION> WSANOTINITIALISED 10093 Successful WSAStartup not yet performed.

 

This solution was tested on windows XP successfully.

Question:

I am getting this error message:


WSANOTINITIALISED
10093
Successful WSAStartup not yet performed.

Also when I try to start the windows firewall I get errors!

Either the application hasn't called WSAStartup or
WSAStartup failed. The application may be accessing a
socket which the current active task does not own (i.e.
trying to share a socket between tasks), or WSACleanup has
been called too many times.

SOLUTION:

This could be a Winsock catalog error


I have traced several of these problems to improperly configured winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to Components/Network/Protocol. Look at the
names in the list, anything with "MSAFD" in it or the "RSVP xxx Service
Provider" should be fine. Anything else is suspect, and uninstalling the
owning program might help.

If that fails or your provider list is empty, you may need to rebuild the
catalog from scratch. The following instructions will rebuild your catalog
for TCP/IP. If you are using any other transports (If you don't know, then
you probably aren't) then you will have to reinstall them as well.

 

FOLLOW THESE STEPS

1a. Launch the REGISTRY EDITOR by going to START> RUN> and typing REGEDIT and pressing enter.


1. Backup and delete the following registry keys (and do a system restore point just to make sure)


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2


2. Reboot


3. Go to the network connections folder, right click the icon for your
network connection, and select properties.


4. Click install, choose "protocol", and click "add..."


5. Click "Have Disk...", enter "\windows\inf", click OK


6. Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), click OK


7. When the process in complete, reboot

Written by computerboom on October 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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