This Policy setting enables you to specify passive polling behavior. NCSI polls various measurements throughout the network stack on a frequent interval to determine if network connectivity has been lost. Use the options to control the passive polling behavior.
The following checkbox disables the passive polling mechanism in NCSI. This can improve CPU workload on servers or other machines whose network connectivity is static.
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetworkConnectivityStatusIndicator |
Value Name | DisablePassivePolling |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
True Value | 1 |
False Value | 0 |