What is DisableUserTOSSetting

DisableUserTOSSetting is a Microsoft Windows registry setting. It is not a pr0n filter nor does it media bull shiitake passing through your PC, although I really hoped it would. No, according to MS it’s found in the registry under the key:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

“It specifies whether individual applications can alter the type of service (TOS) bits in the header of outgoing IP packets. In general, individual applications should not be allowed to manipulate TOS bits, because this can defeat system policy mechanisms.”

It can take a value of 1 (yes/on) or 0 (no/off) and defaults to 1.

There’s more:

“Every IP datagram has an octet commonly known as the TOS byte. The first three bits specify a level of priority. The next four bits, interpreted as a number, specify a type of service. The last bit is currently unused. For more information about the TOS byte, see IETF RFC 1349: Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite.”

A TOS byte? Really?

The guys who created that acronym either know very well the British usage or they’re totally clueless when it comes to checking across cultures before they started hard-coding. The same can be said of the software writers who created IM Toss and Toss It!