If you are having network connectivity troubles and believe its TCP/IP connected and would like to uninstall and reinstall TCP/IP, you can’t. You will notice in the local area connection belongings that the uninstall button is grayed out. In Windows XP, the TCP/IP stack is measured a core component of Windows and therefore not possible to uninstall.

You can however reinstall the internet procedure stack to the mode it was when Windows was first mounted using the Netshell efficacy.

Using this control with a sure switch will permit you to reset rewrite relevant registry keys that are used by TCP/IP to attain the same result as the removing and reinstalling the protocol. Employ the subsequent command to do so:

netsh int ip reset [logfile]
Where logfile is a name you provide to the file that records the actions executed by netsh. Here is an example of the control you can employ.

netsh int ip reset iplog.txt
to generate the iplog.txt log file in the present directory

OR

netsh int ip reset c:\iplog.txt
to generate the iplog.txt log file on the C drive.

As forever, be cautious when using these types of commands to avoid enduring damage to your system and memorize to backup your registry first.

Another method to reinstall TCP/IP is from the belongings of your network connection.

• Click Start and select Control Panel (or Settings then Control Panel).

• Click on Network Connections.

• Right click your network connection and choose Properties.

• Click the Install button.

• Choose Protocol.

• Click the Add button.

• Click the Have Disk button.

• In the Copy Manufactuer's Files From text box, type c:\windows\inf

• Click Ok.

• Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

• Click Ok.

• Restart your computer.