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Ok, I found out what was wrong in my XP SP3 installation.
Maybe it was caused by VMWare8 Workstation because I tried using Calibre inside some virtual machines XP SP3 and Win7 SP1 and it was working correctly on both. Which looked really weird given the fact that VMWare uses its own bridging driver to use the real physical network connection in the system.
So I tried repairing the Winsock stack with these commands:
Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults: netsh int ip reset reset.log
And now Calibre is working correctly and it connects to the 'net from the XP SP3 physical machine and not only inside the virtual machines.
Either VMWare8 caused the issue or maybe either the Samsung laser printer LAN driver or an Epson inkjet printer LAN driver I installed for the printers I use. Which is likely. Probably the combination of the various installers corrupted the Winsock stack and catalog for whatever reason.
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