Fix for High Ping after Windows 7

Alright. First off, let me start by saying that there is a chance that this won't work for some people (as always seems to happen with these things). Secondly, I must say that after seeing several supposed fixes for this in the past in these forums, I had never seen this exact fix (no had any of those worked for me). Lastly, this fix involves going into your computer's registry and changing how something works on your computer (I HIGHLY recommend that you look up what a registry is on a computer before doing this so you know what it is you're actually dealing with).

Ok, so after several different quests (spanned over at least a good 2 months) to find a solution to this high latency in games after installing windows 7, I finally found this fix (and I damn near cried because it was such a relief to finally have my ping back to its original 59-80).

So, without further adieu, please follow these steps and hopefully you'll be back to your old ping after about 5-10 minutes.

1) Press the start button at the bottom left of your screen.

2) In the programs and files search bar, type regedit (You should see what appears to be a cube breaking apart as its icon, but the name should be beside it aswell.) Then open regedit. *I believe you will need administrator's permission to open this.

3) After you open regedit, you should have a rather large list of files and folders in a scroll window on the left of regedit's window. Double click or open the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. (Bear with me, as it does take a similar path as the other fixes posted on these forums.)

4) Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, open SOFTWARE.

5) Under SOFTWARE, open Microsoft.

6) Under Microsoft, open Windows NT.

7) Under Windows NT, open CurrentVersion.

8) Under CurrentVersion, open Multimedia.

9) Under Multimedia, open SystemProfile.

10) Stop at SystemProfile and open NetworkThrottlingIndex located in the larger section to the right. (On mine I had these three names here: (Default), NetworkThrottlingIndex, and Responsiveness)

11) After opening NetworkThrottlingIndex, type or paste in FFFFFFFF (I'm not sure if you have to have them in caps or not but for safety's sake, please put them in capitals. There should also be 8 of them, make sure of that.) for the value, then have the dot next to hexadecimal filled in if it's not already. Click ok. These F's may appear in lower case under the data section, either way it should be fine.

12) Make sure your new data value is 0xffffffff. You also may have a string of numbers after it similar to if not (4294967295).

13) After doing this, close regedit and restart your computer. (Don't worry. The registry data saved when you hit ok after typing in the new value.)

If you need clarification on any of these steps or about what this does, please do not hesitate to ask!
I really hope this helps some of you who had the same frustrating problem as me. And to the Cross Fire staff, don't take this issue lightly. This lag after installing windows 7 has happened to numerous people. I was just about ready to quit CF all together because I just couldn't get over my laughable ping (You may remember earlier when I said the ping I was supposed to have, my normal ping, is 59-80. Before finding this solution, it was 150-180, an absolutly rediculous increase.) So while it may not be a problem with Cross Fire, you can still take action to help cure this problem by stickying this post for starters.

I hope everyone has some really happy holidays!!! (Yeah, I have respect for other religions. What? You wanna fight about it?)