Resetting TCP/IP in Windows XP February 16, 2009

I have recently gotten a problem on my laptop, where I get this message

“the network location cannot be reached. for information about network troubleshooting, see windows help”

when accessing network shares.

Sometimes TCP/IP Stack gets corrupted. Since this is a core part of the OS, reinstallation is not possible.

However you can reset the TCP/IP stack using this command.

netsh int ip reset c:\reset.txt

This will reset the TCP/IP stack in windows XP.

You can read more about this here : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299357&Product=winxp