So you can´t set tcp autotuning to disabled after vista sp2?
Exactly this was my problem today morning. No one in the newsgroups seemed to have a solution. Now what I did was start a netsh shell and looked around for this "heuristics" feature which was obviously introduced with sp2. Finally, I found out you have to disable this heuristic first before you can set autotuning to disabled. The steps are:
netsh
interface
tcp
set heuristics disabled
set global autotuninglevel=disabled
and...here you go.