FP98: 32-bit TCP/IP Missing Error After Installing Winsock 2.0

When you attempt to start FrontPage, you may see the following error message:

This message appears after you install Windows Sockets (Winsock) 2.0. FrontPage may not detect that you have TCP/IP installed if a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server is not available. If you are connected to the network, and a DHCP server is available, FrontPage will operate normally.

To resolve this behavior, restore Windows Sockets 1.1 and then install the Windows Sockets 2.0 update. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Restore Windows Sockets 1.1.
   1. On the Windows Start menu, click Run.
   2. In the Open box, type the following command
      C:\<windir>\ws2bakup\ws2bakup.bat
      where <windir> is the folder in which you installed Windows.
      
      NOTE: If you receive a message indicating a sharing violation has occurred, press the A key to stop running this command. Repeat this step until the batch file has finished running and then follow these steps:
      1. On the Windows Start menu, click Shutdown.
      2. Click "Restart the Computer in MS-DOS Mode" and then click OK.
      3. At the command prompt, type the following:
         c:\<windir>\ws2bakup\ws2bakup.bat
         Press ENTER.
         
         NOTE: If you receive an error message while updating the registry, ignore the error.
      4. Type exit
         
         Windows will restart.
2. Download the W95ws2Setup.exe file from the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:
   http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/0/0e05231b-6bd1-4def-a216-c656fbd22b4e/W95ws2setup.exe (http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/0/0e05231b-6bd1-4def-a216-c656fbd22b4e/w95ws2setup.exe)
   Note in which folder you saved the W95ws2Setup.exe file.
3. On the Windows Start menu, click Run.
4. In the Open box, type the following command
   <path>\W95ws2Setup.exe
   where <path> is the folder in which you saved the Ws2setup.exe file when you downloaded it. Click OK.
5. When the Windows Sockets 2 Setup program has finished running, restart the computer. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. On the Windows Start menu, click Shutdown.
   2. In the Shut Down Windows dialog box, click Restart and then click OK.
      
      After the computer restarts, the Windows Sockets 2 installation will be finished and you will be able to run FrontPage.

Winsock 2.0 is installed with Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 for Windows 95. It is also recommended that you install Winsock 2.0 for use with Dial Up Networking 1.2.

NOTE: The version of Wsock32.dll that corrects this behavior is version 2.0 and the modified date of the file is September 15, 1997.

For additional information about Windows 95 Winsock, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: