[andres14as]

i ran the windows network doagnose because my internet was acting slow and acting wierd and i got an error saying: windows has detected a problem with Winsock Provider catalog and it told me to restart i did like 5 time. why is my internet acting wierd? and slow? and what is this error and how can i fix it please help!

 

[Kalim]

Hi

It means your Winsock settings are corrupted which are a main cause for disruptive net activity.

In Command Prompt netsh winsock show catalog >C:\lsp.txt will output a file in C:\ named lsp.txt which will show all your Winsock entries.

Follow this site: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/winsock.htm

Download the WinSock XP Fix there and run it. That should fix your issue.