Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services
- Policy ID
- P2P_Disabled
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows XP Professional with SP2
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Network › Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services
Description
This setting turns off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services in its entirety, and will cause all dependent applications to stop working.
Peer-to-Peer protocols allow for applications in the areas of RTC, collaboration, content distribution and distributed processing.
If you enable this setting, peer-to-peer protocols will be turned off.
If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the peer-to-peer protocols will be turned on.