Disable Media Sense in Win2K Pro: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DisableDHCPMediaSense Set the DWORD value of DisableDHCPMediaSense to 1. Disable command prompt: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\DisableCMD Value of 1 disables cmd.exe but allows batch files. Value of 2 disables both cmd.exe and batch files. Clear the page file at shutdown: See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 You must restart the computer for the change to take effect. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters SynAttackProtect: This setting protects against a SYN flood attack. Set to a value of 0, 1, or 2 for increasing levels of protection. The higher the value, the more delay Windows adds to connection attempts, causing TCP connection timeouts. EnableDeadGWDetect: Set to 0 to prevent the computer from switching to a different gateway, which could otherwise occur if a DoS attack is in progress. A value of 1 allows the gateway switch. EnablePMTUDiscovery: Set to 0 to prevent a hacker from forcing an MTU change to a small value and bogging down the TCP/IP protocol stack. Windows uses an MTU value of 576 bytes for all nonlocal connections with this setting at 0. Set to 1 to allow MTU discovery. KeepAliveTime: Set this value (in milliseconds) to a relatively low number to decrease the length of time Windows sends a keep-alive packet to a remote computer to determine if the connection is still valid. Microsoft recommends a value of 300,000, or five minutes. Prevent releasing NetBIOS name after a name-release request HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters\NoNameReleaseOnDemand Set the value of NoNameReleaseOnDemand to 1.