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by phil 1 view

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I have a piece of software called top producer that is supposed to work fine with tcp/ip however doesn't. So we set it up with IPX/SPX and everything has worked great for about a year and a half. Now we are putting in a windows 2000 machine in the office and need to be able to run this software on the system. The only problem is that I need to set the IPX/SPX to the default protocol but can not figure out how. I have spent about 2 hours with their tech support and they just say that you can't run their program with those protocol's. If someone could tell me how to set the IPX/Spx to the default protocol and still have tcp/ip installed I would appreciate it.

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by peter ritchie

You don't make a protocol a "default" you simply put it higher in the binding order.

Once you hve UPX/SPX installed you can put it at the top of the binding order in the advanced settings dialog for that network connection.

From the Windows 2000 help file:

To modify the protocol bindings order

Open Network and Dial-up Connections.
Click the connection you want to modify, and on the Advanced menu, click Advanced Settings.
On the Adapters and Bindings tab, in Bindings for adapter name, click the protocol that you want to move up or down in the list, and then click the Up or Down button.

Note: when they say the Advanced menu item they're talking about the menu item in the "explorer" menu.

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