I have the most efficient Windows operating system on my machine. That's the point.

No you don't. Windows 7 and Windows 8 would be far more efficient out of the box than your tweaked Vista installation.

Edited by Pipexer (Wed 09-Apr-14 16:06:30)

Keep dreaming.

I'd have to say that I think you have misunderstood the operation of the DNS client service (note "client" not "server"). It is there to cache DNS entries on the local machine, avoiding an expensive network operation each time a DNS resolution is required. Remember that Vista was designed at a time when networks were far slower than today, particularly wireless networks. It is nothing to do with sharing the Internet service with other computers.

DNS caching is considered to be such an important performance boost that many web browser clients include their own caching. But web browsers are not the only programs that need to resolve readable names to dotted quad addresses.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Keep dreaming.

Hold on... Are you categorically saying you think your tweaked Vista OS is a more efficient operating system than Windows 7 and/or 8 out of the box?

The DNS requests are just piped up the hill to the ISP server (or in some cases, the gateway). The speed difference is negligible; there is no expensive network operation, and there's no local overheads. In the case of multi-PC environment, of course a cache is probably worth it.

I personally noticed no difference between it being on and off. Therefore it is off. As a result there is a small saving of other resources.

My tweaked system versus an untweaked 7, with all the same programs, and five years of service. Definitely.

Win 8...I'll give a qualified yes, on the basis that it's impossible to prove either way, and you knwo that too.

http://www.blackviper.com/windows-services/dns-client/

"Only in extreme situations should you disable this service as caching DNS lookups reduces network traffic and makes internet surfing performance faster."

With a reasonably fast network you may well not notice the difference. But, as I said before, Vista was designed in the days of slower networks; and much of the world still has to put up with such a situation. Also, it is just good netiquette not to needlessly squander someone else's (the DNS server's host) resources (the DNS server). Anything that reduces network traffic, and the load on upline DNS servers, can only be a good thing.

Nope, I don't agree. My ISP provides those servers for a reason. I pay them for their service.

Nettiquette has nothing to do with it.

How fortunate that not everyone, including those who run DNS servers, feel the same way. Otherwise the root servers would get a real hammering responding to every DNS query ever made.

yeah common sense has kicked in, of course the media is as much to blame.

I read dozens of articles stating the start menu was outdated, win8 interface is faster, superior etc. they all assumed new=good.

sadly tho I think they keeping the 1990s styling.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 09-Apr-14 20:11:22)