Restore Winsock 1.1 Missing After Upgrade to Windows 98
Article ID: 188126
Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
This article was previously published under Q188126
SYMPTOMS
After you upgrade to Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Restore Winsock 1.1 may be missing from
the list of installed programs in the Add\Remove Programs tool in Control Panel.
CAUSE
This behavior can occur if you apply the Winsock 2 patch to Microsoft
Windows 95 before you upgrade to Windows 98 or Windows Me.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
MORE INFORMATION
By default, Windows 95 installs Winsock 1.1. When you upgrade Windows 95
to Windows 98 or Windows Me, Winsock 1.1 is upgraded to Winsock 2, and Restore Winsock
1.1 is added to the Add/Remove Programs tool so that you can restore your
original configuration if needed. If you install the Winsock 2 patch in
Windows 95 and then upgrade to Windows 98 or Windows Me, this information is not kept,
because Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me are using the same version of Winsock 2
at that point.
Additional query words: wsock32.dll uninstall
Keywords: kbapi kbnetwork kbprb kbui kbwinsock KB188126