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

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

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

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