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reply to keems

Re: UPNP Setup

The only reason that I was interested in UPNP is because there are two xbox 360's in my house connecting through one router, causing NAT problems for each system. I thought UPNP would help this, so can I use that tool to disable UPNP on all my Windows computers but allow it for the xbox 360's?

That is what we do. We use the GRC tool to disable network UPnP on our PC's, but still have our PS3's, Xbox 360's and everything else that uses UPNP (our DVR's) run without any problem.
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Okay, thank you for the help. That's the strategy that I will try to implement as well.

Also, I was just wondering, even with all of the Windows XP security updates and service packs, Microsoft wasn't able to fix the UPNP security vulnerability?

Network UPnP at least in XP and Vista still seems a mess at least IMO. Try turning on "Show icons for networked UpNP devices" in the Network Places folder sometime. When I do it with Windows XP it messes up a ton of stuff, including my system boot (half the stuff never gets started at boot). I don't know why Microsoft has never been able to resolve this. Things seem a lot better with Windows 7 for me (so far).
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reply to keems
Alright, I will try it. Thanks for all the help. It seems pretty irresponsible of Microsoft to just turn on UPNP for everybody.

Also, does the UNPNP program to disable the UPNP on Windows not for Windows XP Media Center? It worked for me on XP Home and Professional but not on Media Center. Is there a reason for that?

I think, but am not certain (only 99%), that Windows Media Center requires network UPnP to work correctly.
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