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WININET_E_DISCONNECTED
WININET_E_DISCONNECTED is a WinINet HRESULT. It means that WinINet detected that the system has no usable active network connection for the operation. It does not identify a specific remote server failure.
What to check for WININET_E_DISCONNECTED
- Check active interfaces, VPN state, routing and DNS for the user context running the application.
- Distinguish an offline state from a failure to reach one specific host or proxy.
- Retry only after connectivity is restored and apply backoff to background work.
Diagnostic interpretation
This result has the HRESULT value 0x80072F83. AllStat records the condition as “The computer is disconnected from the network”.
Evidence to capture
- Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the wininet / disconnected operation.
- compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.
Retry and recovery
Retry this result only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “The computer is disconnected from the network” has changed.
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