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Fact: Windows Vista is throttling down the network interface to 10 packets per second to prevent choppy audio playback.
Reason: Users expect multimedia applications, including music and video players, to offer a seamless playback experience. However, demand for the CPU by other concurrently running applications, like antivirus, content indexing, or even the mail client, can result in unpleasant hiccups. To provide a better playback experience, Windows Vista introduces MMCSS to manage the CPU read more
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Written by Tony on May 12th, 2009 with no comments.
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Fact: Windows Operating System uses 20% of your internet connection bandwidth by default!
Reason: Windows reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for several reasons related to QoS or Quality of Services like Internet telephone systems, video, and also Windows Updates.
Resolution: But there is a simple trick to utilize your full internet bandwidth . You can use this trick to accelerate your internet speed.Here’s how to get it back.
Go to Windows Vista Start Menu > Run and then read more
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Written by Tony on May 10th, 2009 with 4 comments.
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Windows Vista changes the behavior of the DHCP Client (Compared to Windows XP SP2), and now tells the server to respond using broadcast (multicast instead of unicast). This change allows Windows Vista to obtain an IP address even if not connected to the same subnet as the DHCP server.
Sometimes your Windows Vista will fail to obtain an IP Address from a DHCP(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server like your Broadband or Wireless router. Disable the DHCP BROADCAST flag in Windows Vista is read more
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Written by Tony on May 2nd, 2009 with no comments.
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Automatic Private IP Addressing, or APIPA as it is better known, is a feature of Windows 2000 , XP,2003 and Windows Vista operating systems that allows for the automatic assignment of IP addresses in a network where there is no DHCP server present. APIPA automatically assigns an IP address in the class B network 169.254.0.0(Note: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for Automatic Private IP Addressing. As a result, APIPA provides an address read more
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Written by Tony on April 29th, 2009 with no comments.
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About Windows DNS Cache:
Windows uses a cache called DNS cache to store recently visited websites ie,Windows operating system puts the DNS information into a local DNS cache on your PC when you visit a site. You can see what your computer stores in this cache by going to Windows Vista Start > Run and typing cmd (the command prompt). Now type ipconfig/displaydns. You should see a list of all the website addresses it has stored in the cache.
Working of Windows DNS Cache:
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Written by Tony on April 22nd, 2009 with no comments.
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One significant addition to Windows Vista’s TCP/IP stack is CTCP or Compound TCP.CTCP(Compound TCP) is a technology that came out of the Microsoft Research group as a way to deal with connections that have a large bandwidth-delay product. This is because traditional TCP is inherently a conservative and well behaved system based on reliability and sharing as the most important properties.A good example of large bandwidth-delay type of connection would be satellite internet or wireless read more
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Written by Tony on March 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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A virtual network adapter is a program in Microsoft Windows operating systems including Windows Vista (instead of a physical network adapter) that allows a computer to connect to a network. A virtual network adapter can also be used to connect all the computers on a local area network (LAN) to a larger network such as the Internet or a collection of LANs.A virtual network adapter(Microsoft Loopback adapter) can also be used with a virtual private network (VPN), which is a network that uses a read more
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Written by Tony on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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