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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Viewing Installed Drivers

If you want to see a list of installed drivers, you can run the driverquery program
There are a lot of available switches to view different types of information.
On use can be to export to a CSV file for viewing in Excel
An example would then be:
Driverquery /v /fo csv > drivers.csv
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Operation Was Attempted on Something That Is Not a Socket Error
If you get this error when you try and renew your IP address,
Likely the winsock2 registry entries are corrupted.
The basic steps to fix this are:
1.Remove the old registry entries - Reg file
REGEDIT4

Code:
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2]


2. Import the correct registry entries - Reg file
Code:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/reg/xp_winsock.reg

3. Reboot the computer

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