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I have no idea what happened but the command that worked on x86 and not on x64 suddenly started working on x64 also. I just realised that this is M$ Windows after all

I guess I will have to live with it, hopefully only till I reinstall the OS.

I have Realtek Gigalan chip on board and a Belkin wifi pci addon card. For quick identification I named them Realtek and Belkin ( I monitor the transfer rates by 2 instances of NetWorx portable.) As I mentioned earlier the command did not work with the specified name so am planning to remove the name and revert to the default name assigned by windows, namely "Local Area Connection" and see. Well after all it is M$ Windows, so all is not easy and hunky dory!.

@MagicAndre I have tried all kinds of variation after thoroughly reading the netsh.chm and Netsh_TechnicalReference.chm. including the one suggested by you. I have only mentioned the actual command line that WORKED on the 32 bit version. And it does so in less than a couple of seconds. @IcemanND I think I will try your variation by removing the name I have assigned to the NIC and letting it default to "Local Area Connection". Thanks to both of you.

As quoted above - I have no experience - you might find x64 to be faster if you have 3.2 + GB of ram. I have 6 gb - but am not a heavy graphics user. On the flip side, migrating from XP-SP3 to win7 was painful enough. It took me over a month to get all my background configuration scripting files working. It is proving close to impossible to adapt these Win7 x86 scripts to work under Win7 x64. If performance is not an issue I would say stick with 32 bit version.

I have 2 machines. One running Win7 x86 and the other running Win7 x64. I can't figure this out but the command that works with x86 to disable a wired NIC simply does not work on the x64 version. I of course changed the name of the nic appropriately. The command line I used on the x86 was ..... netsh interface set interface "nvidia" DISABLED this works perfectly. the same on x64 was ... netsh interface set interface "realtek" DISABLED This simply does not work and the cursor simply blinks !!! I wonder why M$ engineers thought it prudent to have them work differently. Only reason I use x64 version is its capacity to access more than 3.2 GB of ram. I don;t see any other advantage to it. Any and all help / suggestions welcome.

When I try to do a full download it gets stuck at file number 207 out of 286. Has abuone else encountered this problem or found a workaround for it? All suggestions welcome.