Tag Archives: Network

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What’s running on port 80 in Windows?

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Trying to set up Apache on a server, something is hogging port 80, but very “helpfully” the Resource Monitor just reports “System” with PID 4…

However, some commands found in a StackOverflow answer and its comments were helpful:

netsh http show urlacl
netsh http show servicestate
net stop http

Note: Do not just run these commands blindly and turn off services (in particular you should probably answer N when the last one asks…), but use them to identify what service(s) might be to blame. Then do an intelligent decision on whether the service is needed or not, before you potentially stop it and disable it…

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Limit OneDrive and Windows Update bandwidth hogging

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Have a really horrible internet connection currently, and whenever Windows Update and OneDrive starts downloading stuff, I can basically not do anything else because they’re hogging all my bandwidth.

BITS

  1. Open Local Group Policy Editor.
  2. Go to Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
  3. Enable Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers, and optionally adjust the rate and hours.
  4. Reboot, possibly?

Source: SuperUser.com

QoS Policy

  1. Open Local Group Policy Editor.
  2. Go to User Configuration / Windows Settings / Policy-based QoS.
  3. Right-click and hit Create new policy.
  4. Set DSCP Value to 1 and/or Outbound Throttle Rate to something appropriate.
  5. Set QoS policy to apply to applications with executable name onedrive.exe (or skydrive.exe, check your process list).
  6. Reboot, possibly?

Source: Don’t remember…

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Change network profile name and type in Windows 8

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The Network and Sharing Center in Windows 8 is kind of useless in many ways. There is for example no way to change the name, so you might be stuck with a dumb “Network 3” identity. There’s also no way to change between the Public and Private types if you want to change what you selected when you initially connected to the network.

So, on your own responsibility, here’s where to find those profiles in the Registry Editor.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows NT \CurrentVersion \NetworkList \Profiles

Of particular note is the ProfileName and the Category. The last one can have the following values:

0

Public
1

Private
2

Domain