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Additional Steps to Help Prevent Skype from Becoming a Supernode
(for Technical Staff only)
According to the Skype "Guide for Network Admins", this is accomplished by setting the following value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Skype\Phone
DisableSupernode, REG_DWORD = {0,1} SET TO 1
A .reg file could be created for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista from the following to make it easy:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Skype\Phone] "DisableSupernode"=dword:00000001
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