Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services

This setting turns off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services in its entirety and will cause all dependent applications to stop working.Peer-to-Peer protocols allow for applications in the areas of RTC collaboration content distribution and distributed processing.If you enable this setting peer-to-peer protocols will be turned off.If you disable this setting or do not configure it the peer-to-peer protocols will be turned on.

Policy path: 

Network\Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services

Scope: 

Machine

Supported on: 

At least Windows XP Professional with SP2

Registry settings: 

HKLM\Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet!Disabled

Filename: 

P2P-pnrp.admx

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