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Disable TCP window-scaling heuristics

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Runs `netsh interface tcp set heuristics disabled`. Windows ships a 'scaling heuristics' layer that can silently clamp the TCP receive-window autotuning level based on its own guesswork — which on a good modern connection just throttles throughput below what autotuning would otherwise negotiate. Disabling the heuristics lets autotuning use its full configured level. Safe and reversible. Revert restores the default (enabled).

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Official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/network-subsystem/net-sub-performance-tuning-nics

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