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Disabling items in Network connection properties via registry

Asked by meirionwyllt in Network Cards & Adapters, Windows XP Operating System, Networking Protocols

Anyone know how to untick (or disable) items in the inside the properties of a Network Connection via a registry modification?

In our domain we are using Lumension Sanctuary Device Control for controlling access to any peripheral end-user devices. It's working quite well, apart from the fact that it also installs an item in the list of items inside the properties of all network connections of a PC. This item is called SK-NDIS, and is located in the list alongside "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "Internet Protocol TCP/IP".

Now, SK-NDIS has been causing us a whole host of problems. It sometimes prevents our Wi-fi cards from connecting - the connecting status stays on "Acquiring network address" indefinitely. Unticking SK-NDIS solves this problem. Another problem we have is that SK-NDIS really slows down the link speed of our LAN clients. Users complain that since we have installed Sanctuary, network applications have slowed noticeably, and unticking SK-NDIS speeds things back up.

Now, we only want Sanctuary to affect connections within a PC, not between them, so my question is, how do I disable this via Group Policy, bearing in mind that we have 2000 PCs on our domain.

I was thinking of deploying some kind of registry modification via batch file as a Startup script.

Anyone know how this could be done in the registry?

If it helps anyone, SK-NDIS has a registry entry at

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\sk-ndis

with subkeys Enum, Parameters and Security.

Thanks.

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Disabling items in Network connection properties via registry

Asked by meirionwyllt in Network Cards & Adapters, Windows XP Operating System, Networking Protocols

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