Windows - Changing a network interface profile to Private

Isn’t Windows Easy? Changing a network interface profile to Private

Windows interfaces kind of suck.

Let’s change one from whatever Windows decided to allocate it to and make it into a Private interface.

First, let’s take a look at all of the interfaces on the machine.

netsh interface ip show interfaces

This is great, but the PowerShell commands we are going to use will only alllow us to change active connections.

Run the following to find out what is active.

Get-NetConnectionProfile

Let’s switch that ‘Wi-Fi’ interface to Private.

Get-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias 'Wi-Fi' | Set-NetConnectionProfile -NetworkCategory Public

And isn’t that dandy? We switched it.