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Anyone can tell me the name of the process which is created by Windows XP when we right-click and select repair from the taskbar for the LAN connection?
Sometimes when I click repair the new window which is opened fails to close properly, happens when it cannot repair, and then I cannot close it till I perform either restart or shutdown, whereby Windows will then close it...

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There isn’t a single standalone “repair.exe.” The Repair dialog you see is part of the Network Connections control‑panel applet (ncpa.cpl) — that applet is normally hosted by the shell or launched via a rundll32/control invocation (for example rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL ncpa.cpl). The visible dialog is just the UI; the actual work (DHCP lease activity, ARP/NetBIOS/DNS cache clears and re‑registration) is performed by Windows networking code and services rather than by a separate repair program. (robvanderwoude.com)

To see exactly which image is showing that stuck window on your machine, use Task Manager or Process Explorer. In XP open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), go to the Applications tab, right‑click the Repair window and choose “Go To Process” — Task Manager will highlight the owning process for you. For more detail use Sysinternals Process Explorer and drag its target/crosshair onto the Repair dialog; Process Explorer will show the process, parent, command line and loaded modules so you can decide whether it’s hosted by the shell or a separate rundll32 instance. (doczz.net)

If the dialog is hung you can (a) end the owning process (careful — if it’s the shell, restart explorer afterward), (b) disable/enable the NIC from Network Connections or Device Manager, or (c) reboot. Check Event Viewer for related errors if it recurs. If you want to avoid the GUI, the Repair tool simply automates a short sequence of network fixes, so doing those steps manually or reinstalling the NIC driver are reasonable follow‑ups when the UI misbehaves. As noted, background networking components do the heavy lifting; the quick way to identify the process on your box is the Task Manager / Process Explorer method above. (vdoc.pub)

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I believe you will find it is:

ipconfig /renew

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I believe you will find it is:

ipconfig /renew

I think you misunderstood my question... in fact I want to know what is the name of the process in the taskmanager which is called when we right-click on the LAN connection icon in the taskbar when repairing a connection.
For example if I open Firefox, in the task manager I get firefox.exe in my Processes window, and here I want to know the process name when we are repairing the LAN conn. as it opens in a new window on the screen, and therefore I believe there must be a process associated to it

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The main process controlling the operation is services.exe. It stops and restarts the services it needs to re-establish the DHCP connetion. services calls svchost and mDNSresponder and a few others I could not quite catch.

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ok thanks...think its getting too complicated in the end for me 2 and better leave it to the microsoft guys to handle :D

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