While the publications Insider of Windows are for testing new features and changes. Changes are usually announced in the changelog for these releases, but often, some of them come unannounced. For example, some users noticed that the new Outlook it was automatically installed in the latest version of the Beta channel. This was not revealed in the release notes.
So lately Microsoft seems to be making a conscious effort to improve the performance of File Explorer in Windows 11. Xeno user (formerly Twitter) discovered another interesting one that is not mentioned anywhere in the change logs.
It appears that Microsoft is removing many DLLs related to peer networking, such as some for distributed routing and peer-to-peer services located in the System32 folder of the build. Xeno he says that at least a dozen such files were removed, resulting in the deletion of three such services:
- drt.dll (Distributed Routing Table)
- drtprov.dll (Distributed Routing Table Providers)
- drttransport.dll (Distributed Routing Table Transport Providers)
- Groupinghc.dll (Grouping Helper Class)
- P2P.dll (Peer-to-Peer Grouping)
- P2PGraph.dll (Peer-to-Peer Graphing)
- p2pnetsh.dll (Peer-to-Peer NetSh Helper)
- p2psvc.dll (Peer-to-Peer Services)
- pnrpauto.dll (PNRP Auto Service Dll)
- Pnrphc.dll (PNRP Helper Class)
- pnrpnsp.dll (PNRP Name Space Provider)
- pnrpsvc.dll (PNRP Service Dll)
Services removed:
- Peer Name Resolution Protocol
- Peer Networking Grouping
- Peer Networking Identity Managers
Microsoft may think that such features are not that important anymore in the upcoming Windows 11 23H2 update and if that is the case, then the next major version of Windows, generally referred to as Windows 12, will lack these P2P features.
