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: Whenever you go to read more

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

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

Let’s suppose you are using two network settings with your Windows Vista computer frequently. Either it’s a wireless network or wired network, all the same: Every time you want to change the IP, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS Server(s) of your network connection in any flavor of Windows, you have to click through menus, submenus, and from that you go to yet another submenu. There is an easier and better way to switch your Windows Vista computer between these network settings read more