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Navigate to the following folder: Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connectivity Status Indicator.If you have access to the Group Policy Editor, you may modify the feature there as well. Yes, there is a third option available that is not mentioned in the guide. Make sure that EnableActiveProbing is set to 1.Change ActiveDnsProbeContentV6 to the IPv6 address of the DNS server used by the domain.Change ActiveDnsProbeContent to the DNS server IP used by your domain.If you use IPv6, you need to change ActiveWebProbeHostV6 as well.ActiveWebProbeHost needs to be set to your web host that you want to use.Then it is necessary to change the following values that are all listed under the same Registry folder as above.

Make sure it can be accessed as a plain text file. First thing that you have to do is save the nsci.txt file and upload it to an Internet server.This requires that you have access to such a server. You can modify the values that you find here to use a custom server instead for the look-ups. Should you wish to enable it again at a later point in time, change its value back to 1. Double-click on EnableActiveProbing and change its value from 1 to 0.Navigate to the following folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet.Use the Windows-R combination to bring up the run box on your system.All it takes is to change the value of a single Registry key and be done with it for good. The first disables the check in the Windows Registry, the second changes the server to a custom hosted one so that checks are performed on a server under your control.
