May 142011
This is a note for my own future sanity (like when I start using IPv6 and want this enabled again) given that this information is widely available around the network. If you do not know why you would want to turn off IPv6 when you are almost certainly not using it, then you probably want to do it anyway.
Hint: You may have a globally reachable IPv6 address on your machine that bypasses your firewall. And if that doesn’t worry you, it should!
Anyway, to turn it off run regedit in your preferred manner, and create the following DWORD attribute :-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents
Set the value to FF (in hexadecimal). And reboot your machine.
So far this has worked with :-
- Windows Server 2008R2
- Windows 7 (Ultimate)