Comments on: Failed to Load Control: SocketXCTl from Socket.OCX

By: vijay

vijay — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:28:27 +0000

yes its gone… thank u

By: maximus

maximus — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:09:26 +0000

yeah! removed the DSS

By: mike

mike — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:44:54 +0000

yea same here the dss file isnt in my system either

By: Diogo

Diogo — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:57:09 +0000

hi there!

Im having this problem on vista x64 ultimate but i cant solve the problem.. accualy the dss file is not there… any help will be great =D

By: mike

mike — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:59:07 +0000

Thank you. removed dss from registry and its ok.

By: BrunoB

BrunoB — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:19:24 +0000

Thank you huchein! I had exactly the same problem with Windows XP Pro… Removing that “DSS” value resolved the problem right away! Cheers!

By: mustafa

mustafa — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:32:12 +0000

please i am having same problem with the socket DNS message on my window Xp. But i dont see the path you just gave.

please can you assist me again on this.

By: huchein

huchein — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:15:05 +0000

i had the same problem with my pc- windows xp sp2 installed.and somehow i found that the annoying message box started to appear after i installed my antivirus software. i searched the internet about this message and found a solution,so thought id share here although it mine in XP. but i think it’ll work on Vista too.

Using the Registry Editor (regedit.exe), look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run for a value named “DSS”. If it’s there, delete it, restart your system. im free from the annoying message.thanks to PCMag forum.

By: djlen

djlen — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:37:13 +0000

I have this same problem on an XP Pro Desktop on a Dynamic IP. Any constructive fix anyone?

By: kerrwin

kerrwin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:51:39 +0000

i have the same problem also! it is so annoying! how can i take this out?