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winsock.dll not present error

When trying to use telnet applications on a Win 98 machine I keep getting the following two errors

cannot load tcp/ip
and
Winsock.dll not present

Checked system directory and winsock.dll IS present so copied it to windows directory on the off-chance it would work (this has worked in the past).

Web access works fine and am able to ping remote IP addresses so it seems to be a problem with telnet apps.

Any thoughts on this?

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Asta Cu

Cannot Connect With ISP, Ping Returns Error 10091 (Q302861)
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q302861

Winsock errors
http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/nlsearch.aspx?Catalog=LCID%3d1033%26CDID%3dEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3dON&Product=w98&Query=winsock%2520error&Queryc=winsock+error&withinResults=false&srchstep=0&KeywordType=ALL&Titles=false&numDays=&maxResults=25

Good luck, hope this helps.
":0) Asta

Asta Cu

Specific error messages are helpful. Have you tried running ipconfig?
"Fatal Error" Error Message Occurs When You Run WINIPCFG (Q286748)
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q286748

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Some great suggestions so you can have the points, but I've just been told that the telnet package we use on our machines doesn't work with Win98 so I reverted to using Windows Telnet and it's working fine.

Thanks

Asta Cu

Thank you very much.
Have a great day.

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