PING: transmit failed, error code 1231.

I started getting this error message on my HP Windows Vista Laptop and for no reason known to me the Internet stopped working.

I checked the Internet and found it could be a problem with TCP/IP getting corrupt!

So I tried to restart in safe mode with Networking and saw that Internet was working there!

Then I tried winsock correction using the command netsh winsock reset , and restart the computer in normal mode.

And the Internet was up and running