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Article ID: 929852 - Last Review: June 29, 2010 - Revision: 5.0
How to disable certain Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) components in Windows
Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
INTRODUCTION
This article describes step-by-step instructions for how to disable certain Microsoft Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6) components in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista. To disable IPv6 components, you must be logged
on to the computer as a member of the Administrators group, or your user account must be granted permissions to edit the Windows
registry.
MORE INFORMATION
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry.
However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully.
For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more
information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base: 322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ ) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
You may use one of the following Fix it Solutions to enable or selectively disable IPv6 components or you may enable and disable the
components by yourself. To have us enable or selectively disable IPv6 components for you, go to the "Fix it for me" section. If you would
rather enable or selectively disable IPv6 components yourself, go to the "Let me fix it myself" section.
Fix it for me
To enable or selectively disable IPv6 components automatically, click the Fix this problem link. Then click Run in the File Download
dialog box, and follow the steps in this wizard.
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Enable IPv6
IPv6 in prefix policies interfaces interfaces loopback interface
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Note This wizard may be in English only; however, the automatic fix also works for other language versions of Windows.
Note If you are not on the computer that has the problem, you can save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD, and then you can
run it on the computer that has the problem.
1. Click Start , type regedit in the Start Search box, and then click regedit.exe in the Programs list.
2. In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
3. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\
4. Double-click DisabledComponents to modify the DisabledComponents entry.
Note If the DisabledComponents entry is unavailable, you must create it. To do this, follow these steps:
a. In the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
b. Type DisabledComponents, and then press ENTER.
c. Double-click DisabledComponents.
5. Type any one of the following values to configure the IPv6 protocol, and then click OK:
a. Type 0 to enable all IPv6 components.
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Notes
Using a value other than 0x0 or 0x20 will cause the Routing and Remote Access service to fail after this change goes into effect.
You must restart your computer for these changes to take effect.
Note Administrators must create an ADMX file in order to expose the settings in step 5 in a Group Policy setting.
REFERENCES
For more information about how to manage Group Policy settings by using ADMX files, visit the following
Microsoft TechNet Web site: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/02633470-396c-4e34-971a-
0c5b090dc4fd1033.mspx (http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/02633470-396c-4e34-971a-0c5b090dc4fd1033.mspx) For more
information about the Windows registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256986 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986/ ) Description of the Microsoft Windows registry
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