Norm X wrote:
I was have some flaky behavior WRT to my Ethernet at home so I brought
the notebook and a Cat 6 cable up to the University. Here it cannot
connect. It set an auto-config IP which is useless. Network diagnostics
reports some network diagnostics are missing on this computer and
further probing reveals "Windows Sockets registry entries required for
network connectivity are missing".

Thanks in advance.

If you are seeing that error on a network with Win10 devices and not
seeing Win7 or earlier o/s devices Computername and their respective
shares....ignore the Winsock error - it means nothing. MSFT is aware
and working on a solution. Attempts to fix Winsock(patch or replace the
file are not recommended).

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....winston
msft mvp windows experience