Botched TCP/IP?

[Brett_Tabke]

Status: machine works ok on local network and to internet. Static IP - static dns set.

Problem:
Go to:
-> Network Connections
-> local area connection (ethernet)
-> properties
-> install
-> Protocol
-> click Add

And I get this error:
Error: "could not add the requested component. The error is: The system cannot find the file specified".

We have looked and looked at everything and can not find the source of that error. No file requests fail at that point (looking via Filemon). No major keys appear to be failing in the registery (watching via RegMon).

Looked quite a bit for an answer around the web and can't seem to nail this particular problem.

[CaseyRyan]

Here is a link [tek-tips.com] to a thread I found which talks about the same problem you're having.

It basically says that you have a bad registry entry.

Click on this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Scroll past the folders to show this value: DevicePath

The value should be %SystemRoot%\Inf and of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.

-=casey=-

[Brett_Tabke]

thanks - not it. This won't let me add a protocol at all.

[Brett_Tabke]

Gave up and reinstalled windows from scratch. I guess I was due - it had been a few weeks since the last reinstall. lol

[bill]

...well, if you did Drive Image type backups you wouldn't have to do that. You could just revert back to the proper setup and start from there.