Winsock Error Codes - Brought to you by Winsock-Error.com

10093 "Successful WSAStartup not yet performed."

WSANOTINITIALISED (Winsock error number: 10093)

Microsoft say this about Winsock error 10093 - WSANOTINITIALISED:

Either the application has not called WSAStartup or WSAStartup failed. The application may be accessing a socket that the current active task does not own (that is, trying to share a socket between tasks), or WSACleanup has been called too many times.

Full details of Winsock TCP error 10093 - WSANOTINITIALISED:

Berkeley description: No equivalent.

WinSock description: Either your application hasn't called WSAStartup(), or WSAStartup() failed, or--possibly--you are accessing a socket which the current active task does not own (i.e. you're trying to share a socket between tasks). Note the British spelling (with an "S" instead of a "Z").

User suggestions: Chances are the network subsystem is misconfigured or inactive. See WSASYSNOTREADY for details.

   
This page is designed to help you to understand Winsock TCP error 10093. It will not necessarily mean you can instantly fix issues when your computer tells you that Winsock is having problems with code 10093, rather it will give you the necessary background information to help solve the matter.

Programming declarations for 10093 (WSANOTINITIALISED):

C#
long WSANOTINITIALISED = 10093 ;

VB.net
Dim WSANOTINITIALISED As Long = 10093

VB6
Dim WSANOTINITIALISED As Long
WSANOTINITIALISED = 10093