Wont renew IP address

[Spiff1333]

Trying to fix a friend's computer that "wont renew the IP address". It wont work at his house or my house so it must be the computer. Any ideas?

 

[versello]

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257

 

[Spiff1333]

I'll try that because he did say it stopped working after he ran Ad-Aware. I'll be sure to report back.

 

[digiram]

If your buddy's running XP SP2, you can try running "netsh winsock reset catalog".

 

[Spiff1333]

First suggestion worked. Thanks for the help.