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Network Connections Folder is Empty


Scarecrow Man
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I recently had to do a repair installation on an XP computer, afterwhich all my drivers were missing. I downloaded the drivers from the manufacturers website, and everything went fine, until I tried to connect to the internet.

I had no network connections. And when I refreshed the folder, I recieved this warning:

"The Network Connections Folder was unable to retrieve the list of adapters on your machine"

I plugged the above error into google and came up with this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329441/

It displayed a workaround. Of course, this did not work for me. I did some more reaserch and found that this can be caused by unregistered files, during the repair.

I issued the following commands from a dos prompt (Start > Run > cmd)

regsvr32 netshell.dll

regsvr32 netcfgx.dll

regsvr32 netman.dll

Presto, network connections are being displayed, and I am now connected to the internet.

Just thought I'd post this incase someone else had this problem.

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