Re: Disable "Plug and Play"?
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Date: 08/20/04
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:23:27 +0000 (UTC)
Franky <franklin_lo@mail.com> wrote:
> I quite like the idea of Plug and Play where I can put in some new
> hardware and XP will discover what it is and offer to install the
> right drivers.
> This seems to work on my system even though in Local Component
> Services I have got "Universal Plug and Play Device Host" set to be
> disabled.
> Am I confusing two different things?
Yes. pnp is hardware in a pc. upnp is networking devices discovering
and "talking to" each other.
> Should I disable or enable it?
Un*x-type OS-es often does as well or better when pno is turned off
since they are designed to probe hardware during boot. Windows however
seems unable to work without pnp
> And what about the warnings in http://grc.com/UnPnP/UnPnP.htm. Are
> these warning still valid? If so then what should or should not be
> running?
Yes, they are very much true. But the place to disable upnp is
not in the pc but in the "broadband-router". D-link 604 ( the new model)
has a checkbox to globally disable upnp.
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