Well, while trying to start an IPSec service today, I got this error:
IPSec Error
Error 10107: A system call that should never fail has failed.
Almost made me laugh… anyway, I definitely agree about the “should never fail” part. Most of my time I spend fixing or troubleshooting things that “shouldn’t have broken!”
Ok, the problem and the fix?
The problem is corrupted Winsock. The fix is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259 or you can use this little tool to do it for you: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html (which is what I did)
Anyway, let’s go see what else shouldn’t be doing what it is doing.