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What protocols/services/clients for networking?
In Wireless and Local Area Network Connection Properties, on my W7 Ultimate laptop and Starter Netbook, I have reduced everything down to:
Client for Microsoft Networks
Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
- and everything still works, at least as well as before, and possibly even more responsively.
So, my first question is, what does all the other stuff - like "Link-Layer Topology" etc., really do at the moment? I realise that IPv6 implementation will require those protocols, etc., but not yet for Internet or peer-to-peer workgroups, or even Homegroup networking, which seems to operate OK under IPv4 alone.
Secondly, my main problem is preventing VMWare etc., Virtual Ethernet adapters becoming the "Master Browser" (old-fashioned "WINS" resolution) instead of the physical devices on my machine - any ideas?