Seems that Win7 phones home now and then. Did some basic poking around and came up with an interesting sollution:
http://jarmund.net/ncsi.html

confirmed working for Win7, as i've tested it myself.
I've been told that it "might" work on Vista as well, so if you wanna test that, it's up to you.

I take no responsibility etc, but it should work just fine.. either way, your computer won't blow up.

And if you have no clue what i'm talking about, read the link.

Suggesting move to Computer subforum for obvious reasons.


Please explain your premise.

Moved for obvious reasons.

Gorman: elaborate on what requires explaination?

Why should I be concerned about W7 'phoning home'?

As far as I know that is pretty necessary to the operation of a computer.

No it's not.

And why you should be concerned is entirely up to each person. The vast majority doesn't care, while others would like a complimentary tinfoil-hat with the .reg file. It all comes down to the fact that i so far have a bunch of people who don't like advertising to Microsoft that they're online (but rather advertise it to me instead).

Well I guess you wouldn't need to be in contact to Microsoft all the time, but certainly at least some of the time you will need to be in contact. Updates, updating statuses, dunno what else, but I guess that it would need to be around for somethings. Fairly sure Microsoft isn't tracking me or anything


Sounds like no real reason to care.

But I think the tinfoil community will be very pleased with your work!

They already are

Oh, and just for the record: That change in the registry only affects the "connected with internet access" thingy. Updates and stuff still run as per normal. Basically, it only changes how windows detects internet access, not how it uses it.