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3:04 pm
December 23, 2014
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Could a few people please check on their Win10 and/or Win7 machines for the file "WINSOCK.DLL" ? It will likely be in capital letters.
The file is supposed to be in your folder "c:\windows\system32", will be dated about July 13, 1999 and be only 3kB. ProTrak uses this file to have computers communicate with each other.
It is not on my Win10 machine, but it is on my other (railroad) machines.
Thanks,
Jim
3:41 pm
April 26, 2015
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Jim,
Just checked, I don't have the file.
Windows 10 home
Bob Butler
5:25 pm
January 3, 2015
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Windows 7 Pro 64
no WINSOCK.DLL
I do have
c:\windows\system32\winsockhc.dll
c:\windows\sysWOW64\winsockhc.dll
Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit)
c:\windows\system32\
both WINSOCK.DLL and winsockhc.dll are present
Windows XP Pro
c:\windows\system32\WINSOCK.DLL is present
And yes, I have all these and use them all
Howard Garner
1:16 am
April 26, 2015
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Jim,
Checked my win 10 laptop the file is not present.
I found the same files as Howard did on win 7
John Valle
Freelanced GN Rachel Branch in '68
7:24 pm
June 14, 2015
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Hi Jim,
I have had a look in my laptop for winsock.dll. Not there!
My laptop was originally Win7 then I upgraded to Win8 as soon as I purchased the machine. I moved from Win8 to Win10 and find I quite like Win10......best ever version of Windows in my opinion.
Microsoft is saying that they no longer support winsock.dll, so what options have you for handling tcpip going forward?
Mark.
PS. I think I payed Seth $2.00 US not $3.00 per RFID chip. Still more than printing barcodes but I suspect the reads will be more reliable, but only time will tell. Plus I do like the idea of putting RFID on my visible wagon loads so both the train plus the loads it carry can be read reliably and put into Protrak. I'm not sure how that could be done with barcodes.
6:15 am
December 23, 2014
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Thank you for looking at your computers. We are finding the same thing.
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When I prepare the ProTrak package I have to create a list of "dependencies" (the DLL and OCX) that the ProTrak executable (the program) uses. During the initial installation, Installshield installs these DLL/OCX on your computer (with a check to make sure that each DLL/OCX is not there, and if it is, is not newer).
Yesterday I re-ran the dependencies check and that run added several DLL/OCX ... including the WinSock dll. Makes sense, since ProTrak first starting using Winsock 3 years ago and I see that has been 5 years since I last ran the dependencies check.
I am working out a new Update procedure that will basically re-install ProTrak (but without all the data files), including adding the new DLL/OCX along with Winsock.
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An alternative may be MSWinSck which (here) is in both the System32 folder and the SysWOW64 folder.
Jim
9:27 pm
April 26, 2015
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Jim,
I checked for the MSWinSck, I did not find it on my OEM Win10 ASUS laptop.
I did find mswsock.dll in the system32 folder.
Hope this helps,
John Valle
Freelanced GN Rachel Branch in '68
4:23 pm
April 26, 2015
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Jim,
I'm back from travelling and catching up on the many ProTrak forum messages. wrt you inquiry about WINSOCK.dll here is my status
Windows 7 Pro 64
no WINSOCK.DLL
I do have
c:\windows\system32\winsockhc.dll
c:\windows\sysWOW64\winsockhc.dll
Joe Brann
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