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What exactly is Windows 7 doing when it says "Identifying" a network connection?
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Mar 15, 202617307 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When I connect my Windows 7 Pro laptop to my corporate network it recognizes the wired network connection and then shows it's connected to corp.company.com domain but still says "Identifying..." for 60-90 seconds longer. Only after it's done do I get a working network connection. With my previous W…
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It's a feature of Windows 7 called "Network Awareness." Part of that feature is something called "NCSI" - which is described here. NCSI causes your system to fetch a webpage from msftncsi.com and also verify the address returned by a DNS lookup from…
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