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.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
| Registry Path | Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet |
| Value Name | Disabled |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 1 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |