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[thinkstorm]

Very easy
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[beardboy]

Does anyone know how to enable / disable the adapters without bringing this screen up and right clicking on them and selecting enable / disable?

thanks,
beardboy

[Chris]

I pulled up a few things from Google newsgroups (not everyone knows how useful it can be to search the newsgroups this way):

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=enable+disable+network+adapter+command&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=atibgn%241485pi%241%40ID-156657.news.dfncis.de&rnum=2

netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" admin=DISABLED
or
netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" DISABLED

But you might get an error message (I did) as described in the KB Article: Error Message When You Use Netsh.exe to Enable or Disable a Network Adapter -- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262265

In which case do as the article suggests and change the IP address settings. I used this command which seem quite effective in disabling the interface (its one long line):-
netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 10.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 1

If the interface was using DHCP, it can be enabled using:-
netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp

Other references:
How to Use the Netsh.exe Tool and Command-Line Switches -- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;242468

How to Use the NETSH Command to Change from Static IP Address to DHCP in Windows 2000 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257748

Shell.Application/VBScript
From: Michael Harris (mikhar@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: How to disable-Enable Local area Connection via script
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Date: 2002-03-25 11:36:10 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=OcFYOQD1BHA.2848%40tkmsftngp05

Devcon.exe maybe?
Take a look at this thread:
From: Jon (jonc@stargatefilms.com)
Subject: Enable/disable network adapter
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
Date: 2002-02-28 11:43:59 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=5c30bf627c5883ae&rnum=12


For more information about devcon.exe (W2K/XP DDK)
Message-ID: <ebVUeG2lBHA.1964@tkmsftngp07>
From: Stephane Barizien (NOSPsbaAM@ocegr.fr)
Subject: Re: Command-line equivalent to Device Manager's "Scan for hardware
changes"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin,
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wmi
Date: 2002-01-07 02:00:08 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=ebVUeG2lBHA.1964%40tkmsftngp07

- and -
this MS Knowledge Base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q311272

[beardboy]

Thanks for the info Chris.

thanks,
beardboy