How to turn of Media Sensing feature

[mesterio]

Hello. I am using Windows Vista at my office. I need a help from you all guys. It may surprise you all because i wanted to know the process of turning off the Media Sensing feature in my Vista. I know that its very useful feature and it feature automatically detects whether the network media are in a “link” state, in a Windows machine with TCP/IP protocols, But because of some reason i need to turn it off.

So please make me know the process of disabling the Media Sensing feature. Thanks in advance...

[Reegan]

Well, its good that you know what are going to do. To disable the Media Sensing Feature For TCP/IP In Windows, follow this steps:-

1. To do this you need to make some changes in registry. So run the command prompt and type regedit and press Enter.

2. Now locate the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

3. Now make a new DWord subkey from the edit menu, name it DisableDHCPMediaSense and press Enter.

4. Keep the value for this key 1.This entry controls the behavior of Media Sensing. By default, Media Sensing events trigger a DHCP client to take an action.

5. Now close the registry and reboot the computer.

Thats it .. Media Sensing Feature is now disabled.

[Zecho]

You should be aware that not only is the Media Sensing gone, but also that handy way for your end user community to call your help desk and tell them that the cable is unplugged. They may even see this message and realize they kicked the cable out themselves.

[mesterio]

Thank you for giving the solution. I really needed this.. Thanks once again.