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    When you install Virtualbox on Windows Vista or windows 7 it will install an additional virtual network adapter on the host system. This "virtualbox host-only network adapter" causes the windows network detection to show an additional "unidentified" network. This behavior is undesirable because you want to be able to switch your firewall settings based on your location (home / work / public)

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    When you install Virtualbox on Windows Vista or windows 7 it will install an additional virtual network adapter on the host system. This "virtualbox host-only network adapter" causes the windows network detection to show an additional "unidentified" network. This behavior is undesirable because you want to be able to switch your firewall settings based on your location (home / work / public)

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    Fix Virtual Box Unidentified Network

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    When you install Virtualbox on Windows Vista or windows 7 it will install an additional virtual network adapter on the host system. This "virtualbox host-only network adapter" causes the windows network detection to show an additional "unidentified" network. This behavior is undesirable because you want to be able to switch your firewall settings based on your location (home / work / public)

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    The problem: When you install Virtualbox on Windows Vista or Windows 7 it will install an additional virtual network adapter

    on the host system. This Virtualbox Host-Only Adapter causes the Windows network detection to show an additional unidentified network. And while this unidentified network is present the windows firewall settings will stay on Public. This behavior is undesirable because you want to be able to switch your firewall settings based on your location (home/work/public).

    The solution (manually): WARNING; DANGER: THE REGISTRY IS NO PLAYGROUND, IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOURE DOING THEN DONT DO IT! Now we have that out of the way, here is what you should do: 1. Open regedit and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E32511CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} 2. Browse through the subkeys (named 0000, 0001, etc) until you find the subkey containing the virtualbox network adapter, this is the one where the DriverDesc key has VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter as value. 3. Add a new DWORD value with a name of *NdisDeviceType and a value of 1 4. Disable en re-enable the virtuabox host-only network adapter, or alternatively reboot your pc.

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