Policy

Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Network > Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services
Supported on
At least Windows XP Professional with SP2

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

This setting turns off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services in its entirety, and will cause all dependent applications to stop working. Peer-to-Peer protocols allow for applications in the areas of RTC, collaboration, content distribution and distributed processing. If you enable this setting, peer-to-peer protocols will be turned off. If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the peer-to-peer protocols will be turned on.

Internal name
P2P_Disabled
Policy ID
750993562ae1
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet
Value name
Disabled
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet
Value name
Disabled
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.