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Umar · 1 year ago

hey... i've installed osx in my desktop too.... i download the kalway osx 10.5.2 iso got it... one problem though... osx does not recognize any of my PCI cards and my inbuilt ethernet port... so i cant get internet on my PC... any suggestions??

Mike Ryan · 1 year ago

Where is the donate button? Seriously.

This worked amazingly. I hadn't even realised how dampened my browsing speeds were until this. My browsing speeds have been cut in half, at least.

LJXD · 1 year ago

Thankyou so much, everything loads heaps faster now

Karthik Kastury · 1 year ago

@Umar, this isn't the right place to post your problems with osx86.. Please post your comment in the right thread..

@Mike, glad it worked for you great. I will be writing more and more such tips in the future.. Staty tuned, and regarding donations I guess I'll pass.. Thank you.

@LJXD, great going. Please tell your friends about this, so that it will be of some use to them as well..

@Everyone, please stumble this article so that it helps many more people..

IanG · 1 year ago

Excellent little Hack Attack.Worked like a treat, browsing is ten times faster now! Thank you.

Asgaro · 1 year ago

Wow, this actually works! :D

Thanks!!

Relton · 1 year ago

Hmm. Quite interesting.

Freelance Web Design · 1 year ago

Very cool. And we thought FireFox was the only browser with tricks up it's sleeves.

Nivco · 1 year ago

Worked great for me!!

Thanks a lot!

Thomas Beckingham · 1 year ago

great stuff,

those that it has helped, could you please let me know which one of the two commands Karthik suggested that you used. Just out of interest =)

Jack · 1 year ago

Thankyou I have a vista laptop and a dual boot osx vista desktop...this was amazing how is this not a widely known hack? Is there any negative effects of doing this?

I chose the disabled command because I felt like it.

Dave Guinan · 1 year ago

im not sure if this has worked for me ......... i have not been on your site for a week and im a fire fox user so i used your firefox hack at the same time as doing this and my internet speeds have boosted so im buzzing im not sure if its one or the other or both but something has worked

Cheers mate

Shane · 1 year ago

This "hack" is best/only for Vista RTM, MS updated TCP/IP and networking etc in SP1... so my recommendation is try Vista SP1 (with/without the "hack" if you must) and see how you go.

http://dotnetwizard.net/?p=542

Or Google... vista sp1 autotuning=disabled

I'll try this "hack" on my freshly built Vista Ultimate with SP1 (SP1 built in, new iso), but don't expect much.

I still swear by "TCP Optimizer", and the "webtweak"...
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

And they have info on disabling autotuning...
http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?qid=247

Have fun.

IanG · 1 year ago

I thought i would give this little Hack Attack a try on Vista Server 2008,but it alreadt set at normal. Just another reasons to convert Server 2008 into a workstation.

Jack · 1 year ago

@IANG

If it is set to normal then that means that is turned on. You want it at disabled I think.

Multi-Monitor Computers · 1 year ago

Vista is a Drag. I want to like it, but it's not much better and it's hogs up more of the system resources. Oh well. Another Great Article!

Kenneth Sim · 1 year ago

The command prompt worked for me but I don't really notice the difference in the speed... maybe I just don't realise it :P

sampat · 1 year ago

good work, it's really working

Jon Anderson · 1 year ago

holy shit lol this is awesome. i had no idea it was slow. i <3 you and i <3 me for stumbling upon this :)

Donovan · 1 year ago

What the Hell, It works, It really does. Eureka....
When will we be able to see a "humble" Vista workin with no need to hackin' it??
Why Microsoft do this to us? I guess it's just we don't read between the lines, they want us to convert to Ubuntu.
The more I use Vista the more I miss XP, I swear if it did't have Aero...

Rich · 1 year ago

Hi

Half my browsing ground to a halt this morning. As did every other vista I know of around here.

This fixed it instantly.

Bizarre.

Cheers

Rich

Marie · 1 year ago

Well, no luck. For either suggested command I get an error message:

Set global command failed on IPv4 The requested operation requires elevation.

Since I have no idea what that means, guess I'll live with the untweaked for now.

Thanks for the info though.

Brian · 1 year ago

Sweet mother of God!
seriously, thank you! this helped a lot!

Kilroy · 1 year ago

Worked perfectly, thanks!

Margok · 1 year ago

Whoa, that's incredible!

deen · 1 year ago

this actually, actually WORKS!! i'm always suspicious whenever i stumbleupon sites which claim that downloading this, or tweaking that, or messing with this will "speed up your computer"... and i honestly don't know why i decided to risk it this time - maybe cos you had outlined a way to change it back in case it didn't work and maybe all the comments - but i'm so so so glad i did.

it really does bloody well work!

the difference is actually noticeable, and not just if your a tech-head, even if your just someone who surfs on and off... trust me you'll notice the difference. sites literally just "snap" on!

well done and big thumbs up... way up!

jamie · 1 year ago

I also got

'Set global command failed on IPv4 The requested operation requires elevation.'

for both :(

John · 1 year ago

it really does seem to make an improvement. I had no idea that it was the computer, I just assumed it was my DSL connection that seemed slower. Many thanks!

AMANDA · 1 year ago

Help. When I attempted to right click on command in start I didn't get the option to run as administrator. What now?

Alfred · 1 year ago

I used this and my download speeds remained broadly static. I guess I'm just lucky with my router?

Michael · 1 year ago

hmmm. no real difference here:
up/down on speed test:
normal = 9126/612
restricted = 9190/610
normal = 9211/612
not enough to tell if it was traffic at the time of the test or due to the settings. back to normal for me.

Brian · 1 year ago

Does absolutely nothing here.

Scipio · 1 year ago

Wow, worked wonders. My already moderately fast connection is much smoother.

HalfDead · 1 year ago

You're my new best friend.

alnphx · 1 year ago

Thank you. It worked great for me. =)

Anooz · 1 year ago

"netsh interface tcp show global" gives this result.

TCP Global Parameters
----------------------------------------------
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Chimney Offload State : disabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : highlyrestricted
Add-On Congestion Control Provider : none
ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled

None of the other commands worked. Command says "Set global command failed on IPv4 The requested operation requires elevation."

:(
??
NEED HELP!

Rheves · 1 year ago

Amazing. Thanks for this.

Smith · 1 year ago

Noice! Thats awesome man, thanks for sharing!

E · 1 year ago

but what exactly is it doing?

jvslacker · 1 year ago

hey, the command prompt froze on my screen after i did this and will not respond or close....what do i do????

DarkSteele · 1 year ago

Wow, worked great on my laptop!

(I used disabled, with restricted the effect wasn't really noticeable to me)

Deletham_Tomalak · 1 year ago

Wow!

This worked amazingly well! Streaming and browsing speeds went through the roof!

Thanks!

nils · 1 year ago

I went to check this and found my hacked version of Vista (eXPerience's TinyVista) already had this disable using yet another setting: highlyrestricted. It'd be interesting to see if this makes a difference opposed to restricted.

Paul · 1 year ago

When I typed it in, I got the following message: Set global command failed on IPv4 The requested operation requires elevation

Has anyone else had this happen. If so, what's stopping it.

Jin · 1 year ago

Paul - You didn't run cmd as administrator, did you?

J-dogg · 1 year ago

yeh paul, i got the same thing, wtf is that?
cos it would be sweet as if it worked

nice trick btw, i just wish it would work for me ]=

UnknownOne · 1 year ago

Woah
Ok a site that used to take ages to load: miniclip.com
Now..its comes up straight away...damn wierd stuff...even after clearing the priv. data etc.
Its like lightning! Great work bro!

Sam · 1 year ago

Stumbled upon this a few minutes ago, great instructions and an even greater result. Will favorite. Thanks!

annon · 1 year ago

epic win sir! thank you

T · 1 year ago

little to no difference. 200k download increase and 2kb upload increase.

dave · 12 months ago

this worked for me. instant difference in webpage loading times. thanks alot

juztbecause · 12 months ago

Wow, would be an understatement. Thank you.

Jel · 12 months ago

Thanks - that really worked for me. Nice one.

Tokeard311 · 12 months ago

wasn't sure about this one.... but i tired it and has worked.... thank you!

also i would like to add I like vista... as long as you have computer that can handle it. To me it is 100% better then Xp... can't wait for windows 7 because it can only get better.

anyways thank you again.

Leah · 12 months ago

worked for me, thanks !!

George · 11 months ago

Thanks Works Great With Vista Ultimate 32 bit

Zed · 11 months ago

Wow, thanks! Amazing! You're a GOD!

pete · 11 months ago

Sweet... thanks... this worked like a charm.. sites just pop up now. especially since my provider is puttin out 15.1mbs of internet speed to my router... sweet...

Archangel · 11 months ago

Wow! I didn't even know vista had this crap in it! My internet is soooo much faster now!

BB · 11 months ago

For all the "require elevation" issues, this fix requires you to run the command prompt as an administrator.
Remember to right-click on Command Prompt in the Start Menu and use "Run as Administrator".

I feel that this wont increase download speeds either. So bandwidth tests won't show the difference.
It seems to be more of a connection orientated fix, so a webpage with multiple objects and multiple connections will initiate the downloads quicker.
A single download stream will initiate quicker, but as its only one stream and long running it won't be noticeable.

azifeyekare · 11 months ago

great tip!

Rick · 11 months ago

Amazing thankyou very much

ashke · 11 months ago

Unreal that a hack actually does what it's supposed to do. Thank you so much for writing this and thanks to whomever stumbled it.

Chloé · 11 months ago

Thanks for the tip, but how exactly do you right-click on the command prompt? The mouse is not working in that menu. Am I doing something wrong?

Chloé · 11 months ago

Oops nevermind, I found it. Awaiting results, thanks again :)

Lou · 10 months ago

Excellent! Works for me. Thanks for sharing.

Zeno · 10 months ago

nice man, good job on this.

Fidel · 10 months ago

My Acer PC was already set to disable autotuning, stock.

chiro · 10 months ago

Ok, I may be the only person who had this problem after this hack but I figure I should write about it anyway.

I am running a Vista 64Bit Vista Premium and shortly after I applied this hack, the computer simply froze. I did a virus scan and all the things we're supposed to do but I came up with no results.

Vista went through its restore process and the everything seemed fine except for the last line that read 'Auto Tuning Error In System Area'.

My system works fine now, but it gave me a headache beyond belief. I am not certain that this hack is the reason why it went crazy, but I didn't make any changes other than this one.

With that said, I blame myself for doing something I didn't need. I have 8 gigs of ram on this machine but for some idiotic reason, I thought I could totally have my browser speed be better.

Lesson learned.

PS. I am not trying to diss this hack in any way, but from what I gathered, Vista is still fragile and new to be tampered with.

Marcus Mangelsdorf · 10 months ago

It worked for me, but the other way 'round:
Autotuning was set to "highlyrestricted" by default and turning it restricted or disabling it, didn't show any effect - but setting it to normal really increased my browsing speed.

Anyway - Thanks for the great hint!!!

Greetings from Germany
Marcus

Anonymoist · 10 months ago

To the people having trouble with "Set global command failed on IPv4 The requested operation requires elevation", elevation = Administrator (i.e. the UAC dialog prompt for elevation). In other words, you didn't follow the directions. Left-click the Start menu, locate the Command Prompt (typically in the Accessories menu) and, while hovering over the Command Prompt, right-click. There should be an option to run that application as Administrator. You will be prompted to elevate the program prior to running it. Then try the 'netsh' commands again.

Ronald Baro · 9 months ago

Greetings!!! I like this!! it worked!! I would like to have more of this as I would like to have more control over the Command line commands in Vista or any OS. I'm not only looking for stuff like this but i'm also looking for faster boot up speeds., so if you all can give me that? and accelerator speeds? then please Keep these tips comming. I would also like to change the Command line lettering to green. Can you tell me how to do that? Thanks.

Ronald Baro · 9 months ago

Greetings again,
Can anyone tell me how to set my computer to IPv6 as opposed to IPv4? please help. I want to really tweak my computer.
Thanks much.

JustJayneDoe · 9 months ago

Woohoo!! I feel all 'techy'....a definite 1st.
For those of you who are as computer illiterate as myself, give it a go. Mine seemed to work after using the 2nd option. I didn't see any improvement with the 'restricted' option but I can see the results now...I'm impressed.
And to the lovely author-I send many thanks for sharing your knowledge, it is appreciated.
J.J.D.
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Joe · 9 months ago

Dude, i dont ever really do these 'hacks' i always see. but this looked legit, so i tried it....

I also never take the time to leave comments, but damn. I had no idea it was taking that long to load. poor Stumble Upon servers going to be hurting now i cruising this quick through pages

Jad · 9 months ago

it didn't work with me, gave me the following message:

Set global command failed on IPv4 The requested operation requires elevation.

Amit · 8 months ago

I am using windows vista Ultimate SP1, this hack works like a charm. Thanks for the share!!!

arby · 8 months ago

Damn, I tried giving this a stumble thumbs up but the stumble server is down, ATM =/

Stella · 6 months ago

Amazing! I had screwed up my computer so bad that it was like typing into a vat of syrup, but this helped it move so much faster! Thanks!

mythreya · 4 months ago

Thanks for your tips.Now Iam able to Browse 20% faster

plaguis · 3 months ago

I love you for this

Nate · 3 months ago

When I did this, and re-checked the status of the Auto tuning, it remained unchanged, and below the diagnostics, it read "The above autotuninglevel setting is the result of Windows scaling heuristics overriding any local policy/configuration."

What would cause this?

Sherly · 2 months ago

Hi friend,

Thanks for your help..now i can feel my browsing speed is much better..thanks for supporting vista users. I would like to have more vista hack supports like this. please post.

Thankyou