Do you have a computer that is constantly stuck trying to get an IP address? You may look at the task bar and see your network connection animated with a tiny yellow ball for quite some time, constantly looking for an assigned IP address. Another symptom is that you visit services.msc and you check the DHCP service where it says starting but the status remains the same. Chances are that your registry could be at fault due to some adware program or just corruption. To save hours of head aches you can try the WinSock XP Fix.

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