иконографияThe driver that ships with Windows 7 appears to have a TCP overload problem.  Be sure to use the updated driver (attached here for archival purposes), version 1.12a.

via_rhine_windows7_v1.12a

Getting Windows 7 to talk to a squid proxy server which uses ntml authentication via samba can be a little tricky.

Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policy -> Security Options

Find “Network security: LAN Manager authentication level ” and set it to: Send LM & NTLM responses
Find “Minimum session security for NTLM SSP” and set it to: Disable Require 128-bit encryption

With Microsoft’s recent release of Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP, a number of users who had it installed complained about their system becoming rather slow and they wanted the old search functionality returned.  In most cases, a simple uninstall via Add/Remove Programs restored the search functionality to its previous incarnation, but in one particular stubborn case, “Windows Search 4.0″ did not show up in Add/Remove programs while Windows Search 4.0 was clearly installed (toolbar and the taskbar icon were present, as were the individual processes).  Unfortunately, C:\Windows\$NtUninstallKB940157$ was not present, either, so a manual uninstall could not be performed.
The solution was to forcefully remove the following registry entries, via regedit:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP3\KB940157
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\KB940157

Once those were removed, manually installing Windows Search 4.0 from Microsoft got the add-on to install properly, complete with an entry in Add/Remove Programs.  Finally, selecting “Remove” from the Add/Remove Programs control panel for “Windows Search 4.0″ did the deed and removed it from the system.