diff --git a/desktop-src/WinSock/sio-keepalive-vals.md b/desktop-src/WinSock/sio-keepalive-vals.md
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--- a/desktop-src/WinSock/sio-keepalive-vals.md
+++ b/desktop-src/WinSock/sio-keepalive-vals.md
@@ -165,9 +165,8 @@ To query whether TCP keep-alive is enabled on a socket, the getsockopt function
 To enable or disable TCP keep-alive, the **setsockopt** function can be called with the [**SO_KEEPALIVE**](/windows/desktop/winsock/so-keepalive) option.
 If TCP keep-alive is enabled with [**SO_KEEPALIVE**](/windows/desktop/winsock/so-keepalive), then the default TCP settings are used for keep-alive timeout and interval unless these values have been changed using **SIO\_KEEPALIVE\_VALS**.
 
-The default settings when a TCP socket is initialized sets the keep-alive timeout to 2 hours and the keep-alive interval to 1 second.
-The default system-wide value of the keep-alive timeout is controllable through the [**KeepAliveTime**](/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc782936(v=ws.10)) registry setting which takes a value in milliseconds.
-The default system-wide value of the keep-alive interval is controllable through the [**KeepAliveInterval**](/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc758083(v=ws.10)) registry setting which takes a value in milliseconds.
+The default system-wide value of the keep-alive timeout is controllable through the [**KeepAliveTime**](/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc782936(v=ws.10)) registry setting which takes a value in milliseconds. If the key is not set, the default keep-alive timeout is 2 hours.
+The default system-wide value of the keep-alive interval is controllable through the [**KeepAliveInterval**](/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc758083(v=ws.10)) registry setting which takes a value in milliseconds. If the key is not set, the default keep-alive interval is 1 second.
 
 On Windows Vista and later, the number of keep-alive probes (data retransmissions) is set to 10 and cannot be changed.