I had the same problem. This program comes with a "auto back-up" for your system registry but it didn't work so just manually back up using reg edit. This system I'm currently working on is crawling with adware/spyware (which I'm still cleaning) so I'm unsure what directly caused the socket issues. Hope this helps. http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...k-XP-Fix.shtml