WSD discovery method in Windows 7

I've noticed on Windows 7 in the network browsing window that Windows 7 clients are listed as being discovered using NETBIOS (as in older versions of Windows), whereas Vista clients are listed as WSD. Is there a way of changing the settings in Windows
7 so the discovery method is WSD also? I've tried searching everywhere but I can't seem to find much information on it. I prefer the WSD discovery because it populates the columns for MAC and IP address which is useful.

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