Interesting Win 7 Article

[dogbert2]

Here is a URL from a story on SlashDot today about how windows 7 determines if you have an internet connection:

hxxp://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-awareness/

I disabled this via the registry hack, as I don't need MS to inform me that I might have networking issues, I think I can figure that one out on my own

Here is an excerpt from the article on SlashDot:

In Windows 7, any time you connect to a network, Windows tells you if you have full internet access or just a local network connection. It also knows if a WiFi access point requires in-browser authentication. How? It turns out, a service automatically requests a file from a Microsoft website every time you connect to any network, and the result of this attempt tells it whether the connection is successful.

 

[TCG]

...just reading that now and was going to share but you beat me to it!!

 

[wilywombat]

Thanks for this, very interesting!