

Later this evolved to support more protocol. Windows Sockets or Winsock is like socket which was initially designed to add support for IPv4 to Windows. Right-click and select diagnose to troubleshoot. If you are using WiFi, then it’s your WiFi adapter, else it’s your Ethernet adapter. Go to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Network Connections and find the network adapter which might be causing the problem. Open Device Manager, find your adapter, and then follow the instructions to reinstall and reset network adapters. Sometimes corrupted driver cause issue, and the best way to go ahead is to reinstall network adapter. See if running any other troubleshooter helps you fix the issue.Ģ] Reinstall Network Adapter & Reset networking component Windows 10 has multiple Network Troubleshooters which solve most of the problems related with the network. You will need admin privileges to execute the commands. If after you run the Incoming Connections Troubleshooter, you receive any error which has a “Network Protocol is missing” message, below is a list of troubleshooting tips to use. One or more Network Protocols are missing on this computer If the word protocol is still not clear, some examples are TCP, LLDP, etc. You might not be able to browse the internet, share files. They make sure the data is sent correctly across between computers, but if any of the Network Protocol is missing in Windows 10, things go south.

Network Protocols are a set of rules or standards used by Windows to communicate over the internet.
