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There are fine grained controls if you want, but to disable IPv6 without yanking out support overall, globally, you can set:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters]
"DisabledComponents"=dword:000000ff

and if you want to back out that change, either delete 'DisabledComponents" or set it to 0.

More information about it here and here.

If you are curious what each bit of the DWORD does, here you go:

Disable all tunnel interfaces:
*0x1*

Disable 6to4:
*0x2*

Disable ISATAP:
*0x4*

Disable Teredo:
*0x8*

Disable Teredo and 6to4:
*0xA*

Disable all LAN and PPP interfaces:
*0x10*

Disable all LAN, PPP, and tunnel interfaces:
*0x11*

Prefer IPv4 over IPv6:
*0x20*

Disable IPv6 over all interfaces and prefer IPv4 to IPv6:
*0xFF*

An interesting sidenote, the codename of Teredo has an interesting background - a shipworm background.

Good news for people that work for Grand Rapids, the city, and for the residents. WiMax has a much longer range than WiFi, so I'm curious just how far the reach of the signal will go. You can read about it more here. Clearwire LLC seems to be providing the service.

Subject pretty much says it all - you can choose either the gray or the black. I have the gray, with a black rubber casing around it, so I sort-of have a black one already.

In conjunction with Microsoft’s availability announcement today of Exchange Server 2007, NetApp is proud to announce that SnapManager 4.0 for Exchange and Single Mailbox Recovery 4.2, which support Exchange Server 2007, will be generally available to customers in mid-December!

Read more about it here and here.

There have been some reports on the Internet about networking problems after installing Vista. If you are having trouble getting IMAP/POP3 mail or trouble using RDP with Vista and are behind a Linksys router/firewall, try this under Vista:

“netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled”

If your networking problem goes away, it is due to a bug in MANY Linksys devices.
So far, most reports are coming from RV042 and RV082 devices, but it seems pretty widespread in general.

Linksys has a beta firmware available for the RV082 that fixes this problem.

Once you install the updated firmware, you can re-enable auto tuning with:

“netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal”

Thanks to my friend Tom for pointing this message thread about it here.

I'm sure other devices/stacks might have trouble as Vista gets deployed more widespread. Time will tell.

For some reason, it is not listed under the ‘Vista’ OS listing yet, but it specifically adds support for Vista.
This should help if you have run into any ‘lockup coming out of standby’ problems.

Grab the well-hidden update here.

From the same blog that the 'Mark all as read' and 'Delete all' add-on came from, is another handy program called Candlelight. Very handy for saving battery life and when you don't want to change your default settings.

Download it from here.

I honestly think this should be included with the OS by default, and believe it or not, it is part of an example source code for programming under Windows Mobile. You can download a pre-compiled version that works great on Windows Mobile 2003 / Windows Mobile 5 from the blog here.

You'll want the Cisco VPN client version 4.8.1 or higher, and change your .pcf connection file to include "UseLegacyIKEPort=0" in the [main] section.

You can read more about it here.

I didn't know this was such a problem that it seems to be out there. I'm curious how many fake memory cards/sticks are out there. Check out a good wiki on it here.

Not sure why but the WMDC that shipped in Vista RTM seems to be almost like a "WMDC Express". Many of the features I became used to with Beta 3 of WMDC seem to be missing. Although I'm not sure if it is a supported option, but I was able to install Beta 3 of WMDC on top of Vista RTM just fine and get all the features I was missing. I now have a happy Smartphone again.

It looks like the 'final' site for WMDC is going to be located here. Thankfully it is more than just a renamed ActiveSync.

I did something I normally don't do but I was curious what the result would be because I have been thinking about starting brand new with Vista and Office 2007 on the work laptop. Last night, I backed up my current XP SP2 install onto another hard drive for safe keeping and attempted a Vista in-place upgrade.

I fully expected it to fail. Previous beta in-place upgrades typically resulted in disaster. It looks like they made a lot of headway from RC2 to RTM with regards to in-place upgrades. The only thing that is non-functional on the Thinkpad T60 is the built-in Sierra Wireless MC5720 EVDO modem. The XP drivers work "mostly" except that the actual NDIS portion of the driver refuses to load. I'm guessing IBM/Lenovo will be posting OEM drivers for Vista soon for the EVDO card soon because, in general, Sierra Wireless has been a very good vendor for Vista drivers.

The current Vista ATI X1400 are a bit flaky and I'm tempted to drop back to the MS drivers that came with Vista. I've never liked the .NET Control Center application anyway so that isn't a huge loss for me. It is everything a .NET application shouldn't be.

Other than that, every application I had installed previously works great and the system in general is faster, I suspect, due to how multithreaded the kernel has become. It really does seem to take advantage of the dual core CPUs better. Even with all the fancy options enabled, this system flies.

The built-in Bluetooth support in Vista is working well with all my BT devices so far. I did make sure to uninstall any application or driver that I thought might conflict with the upgrade beforehand, so that might be why this upgrade is working so well. I miss some of the features of the WIDCOMM/Broadcom BT stack, but the built in support seems a little less clunky.

The only other thing that is partially working is the thumbprint/biometric device. Technically the drivers are functional but the Lenovo GINA hasn't been upgraded yet to support logon/logoff events yet.

So, honestly, unless I run into some major issues, I doubt I will be starting out on a "fresh" copy anytime soon.

I have to get in touch with my friends that host the server this site runs on so they can yank the hard drive that died. Although the drive isn't on the same IDE interface as the rest of the site, due to the dead drive throwing errors left and right, the rest of the system is a bit lagged.

We have a replacement drive so I'm hoping it can be a simple swap and go. Normally I don't run sites on PATA drives, but I can deal with the failure rates for the cost savings advantage. It is a good way of testing your disaster recovery skills and plans. It is also a good way of testing your backup methods. I'm just thankful they let the site run up there.

This is a variation of something I bumped into here.

Some examples of default screen savers that can be used as backgrounds:

Assuming you have 'Run' setup to run as administrator, hit [Win]-R, then:

For Aurora, type:
"cmd /c start aurora.scr /p65552"

For Ribbons, type:
"cmd /c start ribbons.scr /p65552"

For Photoscreensaver, type:
"cmd /c start photoscreensaver.scr /p65552"

This sounds like it will be a nice gathering of developers that care about results more than what language a solution is programmed in.

They describe it better than I can:

CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.

CodeMash

I probably won't be there, so I don't think I can win the Zune for blogging about it, but I figured it was worth a mention anyway.