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i believe my winsock may be corrupt
Thank you in advance for any help, if there's more info you need to know i would be happy to supply it
Some back-story if you're interested is posted below the issue
so here's the problem,
- After manually removing some entries from my winsock catalog I can't connect to the internet via windows (luckily I have Ubuntu installed alongside windows, and that's how i'm posting this)
- "netsh winsock reset" and "netsh int ip reset" both return "Initialization Function InitHelperDll in NSHHTTP.DLL failed to start error code 11003" and it doesn't help anything
- system restore to a point prior to all this (or after for that matter) returns "An unspecified error occurred during system restore 0x80070005" stating that I have antivirus running and i should stop it, but i don't have any antivirus running
- I NEED HELP
I was thinking maybe i could download a new winsock catalog? not sure if that's how it works
If I absolutely need to, I have an external hard drive I could back up all my data to and just re-install windows, however I would really rather not
a little back story:
My parents installed Covenant Eyes on my laptop, which is a program that monitors all internet traffic on a pc and reports it back to a central server so it can be checked from any other pc after you've logged in. After they installed it, iTunes wouldn't load the store, it was just a blank white screen. I tried using the built-in updater for Covenant Eyes but it told me that I had the most recent version installed, I read on an Apple forum that certain winsock providers (including those from Covenant Eyes) can interfere with iTunes' ability to connect to the store. So i used the program "autoruns" to delete all instances of covenant eyes from the list of winsock providers (dumb idea, i know). That doesn't go over too well: covenant eyes realizes parts of it were removed so it tries to restart my pc after 30 seconds. I got an uninstall code from online and finally am able to stop the covenant eyes process so i can uninstall it and then i reinstall it, talk to a covenant eyes support guy who says i need to install the new version for it to work with itunes (their automatic upgrade feature is currently down i found out). FINALLY, everything is working fine. Then i start uTorrent and it keeps freezing. after reading around on the forums for a while, i learn that if someone unsuccessfully tries to remove covenant eyes, it can mess up uTorrent. Now, the first time i got an uninstall code (which changes every day), my parents gave me all sorts of a hassle about it (it emails all your "accountability partners" when you get an uninstall code), so i didn't want to have to go through that again, cause they would probably think i was just trying to find a way around covenant eyes and be annoying about it.
So I use the revo uninstaller program to delete all instances of covenant eyes files from the computer and registry, and then go into the winsock providers and delete all covenant eyes entries in that, and then reset my netsh winsock catalog with command prompt, figuring i would just do a clean install afterwards and uTorrent would work again. i restart my pc, and i have no internet. my wireless card isn't even recognizing that there's an access point in reach. ok, maybe after i reinstall covenant eyes it will work. nope. and it still tries to auto restart my computer after 30 seconds of the service starting
System Info:
HP Pavilion dv6t-6100 CTO Quad Edition Entertainment Notebook PC
Window 7 Home Premium x64
8GB ddr3 RAM
Intel i7 Quad Core 2630QM 2.0Ghz
750GB Seagate Momentus 7200rpm
ATI Radeon HD 6770M
Intel Wifi Link 1000 bgn
Last edited by vv211; 13 Dec 2015 at 02:09. Reason: some restructuring and grammatical fixes