I was having some networking troubles so I thought I'd uninstall the tcp/ip
protocall on my Local Area Connection. Problem is now I can't reinstall it.
When I go into the properties on my Local Area Connection I click on
"Install...", select Protocol, hit enter and I get a Network Connections pop
up error that says:

Could not add the requested component. The error is: The specified path does
not contain any applicable device INFs.

So, I tried rebooting, and trying again. No luck.

Then tried uninstalling my NIC card, rebooting and reinstalling. Then
rebooting. No luck. Same error message.

Then tried going to Add/Remove programs, and Add/Remove Windows Components.
Went to Network Services, clicked on Details and made sure TCP/IP was
selected. Then clicked next (making sure network services was checked).

What happens from there is that the Windows Component Wizrd begins
configuring the components, but stops and says "Files Needed" "The file
'simptcp.dll' on Windoes 2000 Professional CD is needed. Type the path where
the file is located."

So, I put in my CD and ran a search for the file on the cd (from the start
menu) and was told that no such file exists on the CD. I also ran a search on
another win2000 pro CD that has diagnostic tools on it. Anyway, I can't
locate this file anywhere.

I'm absolutely baffled by this. Any suggestions?

Wheels <Whe***@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I know nothing about the legalicy nor the legitimacy of the files but Google
spat out a couple of places where you could download this file though from
the looks of the one that I saw it was from a German NT service pack but
would probably would without problems. I'd wait to see if someone smarter
than I has a better solution but that's what I found so I thought I'd toss
it out into the arena and figured that I'd learn once and for all if it was
something that couldn't/shouldn't be recommended.

Galen

Thank you for the reply Galen. It seems that the file was on my cd afterall,
but it was named *.dl_ I ran a search for *.dll and came up short.

Its very strange though, the tcp/ip protocol will show up in the components
list after it is reinstalled, and it works, but when I reboot the computer,
it is gone from the list. I tried this a second time, and the tcp/ip protocol
stayed in the components list after one reboot. Upon the second one, it
disappeared again.

I'm puzzled, can anyone help? Or have suggestions of what to do? This is
over my head.

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Wheels <Whe***@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Wheels,

Are you 100% certain that your system is free from malware? Could there be
some underlying winsock problem? I'm in the 2k groups to learn more about
the OS and I'm specifically usually only in the more advanced groups as I
love to learn new things. (I've been known to sit here and read a couple
thousand posts and answers a day just to read them.) I'm not the best person
to answer your question in other words but I'd start with malware
troubles -- namely spyware, trojans, viruses, and just plain lousy
applications which I lump into the single term of malware only because I'm
too polite to say what I really feel about it.

Galen

Add/Remove programs, Windows components

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