> I keep getting a " Failed to cleanup the
> Windows Socket Interface" BOINC GUI Error. I am running Windows
> XP SP2 on an Intel 2.8 GHZ Hyper threading processor. Any suggestions?
> If I restart my processor BOINC seems to work, but at some later time I get
> this error appearing, and BOINC doesn't appear to run if I try to restart it,
> I get the described error each time I try.
This is a new error message for me. What version of the BOINC client are you using? Is it 4.19?

Failed to cleanup the Windows Socket Interface
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I have also seen this error once on a machine where I installed the client as a different user than I then tried to run it. Might be a problem with access right, too, tough unlikely on XP (Home at least).
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