bkraptor

I've had those 2 protocols disabled from the start, as they were flooding the network. I don't think there's a tcpip.sys file that is for Vista, and I wouldn't use one from XP.

Nothing appears in event viewer. I haven't stopped or blocked any services. If that guy's problem was the same as ours he would be reporting that his connection stopped working all of the sudden, he wouldn't be worried about decreasing download rates in uTorrent. uTorrent never eats up more than 20 kB/s upband, whereas I have around 512 kB/s upload bandwidth (tested!) I remember once when this happened, I can't really recall what exactly I tried to do, but I know I got a message saying something like I didn't have enough privileges to complete that action. One reboot later and everything was fine again.

It just happened to me again, so the reinstall didn't solve anything. I re-checked, and no 4226 was reported, or anything at all for that matter. This time I closed uTorrent but nothing would work. Then after ~2 minutes everything started working again. I would take a look at uTorrent, but I would definitely not rule out ICS. The guy reporting speed problems with uTorrent certainly has a completely different problem than us. Our connection just stops working all of the sudden.

Wow that gave me a headache. Any particular reason it might turn off by itself?

A. An item dealing with the Vista shell, limited to 60 words or less. Bring back the old "Up one level" button. I can probably live w/o it, but I certainly miss it. B. An item dealing with the Vista UI, limited to 60 words or less. Favourite links? WTF - if it won't work why force me to use it? Personalization? Either return to the old tab style, or make everything using the new look. Stop using both the new look AND one-tabbed windows. Also you should make everything easier to find, I shouldn't be digging in the System properties to go to the Performance window to be able to click the "Adjust visual effects" link, which BTW, has a UAC-like shield icon on it, suggesting you'd need administrative privileges to access it, which it doesn't need. C. An item dealing with the core functionality of Vista, limited to 60 words or less. Why have symlinks/junctions if there's no way to create/manage them by default. And why have them at all if they simply won't work (except for those that YOU create manually with junction.exe) D. An item dealing with Vista networking features, limited to 60 words or less. Wow... the network and sharing center just sucks. So much bloat... And double clicking the network icon should default to "Manage network connections" instead of DOING NOTHING! Also forgot to mention... SPEED. It is unacceptable for a high end PC to feel like Windows XP running on 256 MB RAM.

I had the exact same problem before my reinstall (haven't yet checked if it's fixed now, but I suspect it isn't). System: Intel C2D, 2 GB DDR RAM, Intel Pro/100+ Management LAN Adapter for ISP connection, Onboard Marvell Yukon 1Gbps for LAN (ICS is enabled). Vista Ultimate x64 RTM, not yet activated. All updates installed, NO system tweaking whatsoever, except for disabling Windows Defender. My connection uses PPPoE (it isn't broadband though - it uses UTP cable that comes from a local switch that connects to the local media converter that goes to my ISP). The problem occured with both the default Windows driver for the Intel adapter, and the WHQL one supplied by Intel, and it manifested itself exactly as Tassadaru described it: all existing connections continued to work flawlessly, NO new connections could be made. Windows didn't inform me of any cricical error, but I checked and the 4226 event wasn't reported along with the freeze. As I had uTorrent running in the background I didn't think of restarting it to fix the problem, instead I resorted to rebooting, which fixed the problem for the moment. I am curious to find out whether the auto-thing in Vista is responsible for it. What Tassadaru and me have in common is: 1. ICS 2. uTorrent 3. Vista 4. nationality

A weird thing happened today. I never actually tried to reboot in between the setting of the ClearType Tuning Control Panel Applet. So while I was experimenting with rebooting, I noticed it taking effect, then I noticed it also had an effect even without rebooting. I set it to the lightest contrast level, and now all my display problems are gone. Thanks for all the help.

I forgot to mention, I have a 19" TFT (LCD) with a Samsung 2ms panel.

Yes, ClearType was enabled even before starting this topic, I did disable it and enabled it the way you described. I tried changing the various reg options you posted and rebooted in between, with no visible effect on text. <edit> Posted the above message right after you posted your latest message. I did a search for "ClearType_Tuning_Control_Panel_Applet", but it returned no results. Can you provide a link? I tried the online tool from Microsoft but it does nothing, using both IE7 and FireFox 2.

I don't want to flame you, but if ClearType worked at the device level you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the screenshots with and without ClearType. And I do agree, no ClearType looks better on bold or small text, but otherwise, for general reading it's way better with it on.

Thanks for clarifying things for me, I still have one problem though. The registry values you listed don't exist at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. I manually created them, but tweaking them has no effect on the displayed text. Is there a reboot required? I also tried using the powertoy for XP, but that doesn't work either

Well, this is a matter of taste, and the problem here is not whether or not ClearType looks good or not, but rather how to tweak its settings like in XP. <edit> Here's another example. First image with ClearType on, there's a clear greenish tint to the whole text on the page, while the 2nd image with no ClearType has no greenish tint.

dAbReAkA: Can't you notice the reddish and greenish tints all around the bolded text? I don't have XP installed any more so I can't post screenshots. Screemer: thanks, but that link doesn't work for Vista. First image is with ClearType, zoomed to 400%, 2nd image is the same thing with ClearType disabled.

Wow... is there no way to do this? This is driving me insane... it's even worse with white text on black background

I used to tweak my ClearType settings in XP with the ClearType Tunning PowerToy, but there's no such thing in Vista. Can anyone help me with a link / hint?