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This used to work on Win7 fine. You create a shortcut to network connection and then you can enable/disable the connection with a right click of the shortcut. On Win8.1 doing the same thing only allows you to disable the connection and to enable it you have to select Open file location from the shortcut.

WTF Microsoft? To me it appears they deliberately sabotaged the ease of disco/enable the internet connection. Yes, I am calling it "sabotage".
 
Sabotage what? Ease up there Beastie Boy. ;)

In Win10..

Right click start -> network connection -> change adapter settings -> right click 'make short cut'.. voila.
 
I am on Win8.1 and not Win10. I have the shortcut to network connection on my desktop but you are not understanding me correctly. No longer does it have enable/disable, just disable. On Win7 it has enable/disable so Microsoft jacked it up and I am suggesting they did it deliberately so that people would not be able to easily disable/enable the internet connection. You can still enable the connection again with that shortcut but you have to select Open file location and then click enable this network device.
 
*shrug* Get a short cut to the adapter and not the network connection. Outside of a few people no one I have come across ever needed a quick 'enable/disable' option. To have move it to just the adapter is reasonable and obviously not malicious if you are still able to do it.
 
Thanks but those commands you have to run as admin so no quicker than the way Microsoft has provided. The point is that in Win7 there was an enable/disable option and they went and jacked it up for no good reason apart from stopping people from quickly/easily disconnecting from the Internet.
 
rezerekted said:
Thanks but those commands you have to run as admin so no quicker than the way Microsoft has provided. The point is that in Win7 there was an enable/disable option and they went and jacked it up for no good reason apart from stopping people from quickly/easily disconnecting from the Internet.
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Why would you want a non-admin to be able to disable or enable network connections? I just don't see where you are going with this, especially with saying that Microsoft is somehow trying to "sabotage" anything. It seems like if anything they would be attempting to mitigate a security risk.
 
modi123 said:
*shrug* Get a short cut to the adapter and not the network connection. Outside of a few people no one I have come across ever needed a quick 'enable/disable' option. To have move it to just the adapter is reasonable and obviously not malicious if you are still able to do it.
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It is a shortcut to the adapter I am using. Right clicking it only shows disable and never enable. If you navigate to the adapter directly it shows both. Like I said, Microsoft done fucked it up.
 
NoOther said:
Why would you want a non-admin to be able to disable or enable network connections? I just don't see where you are going with this, especially with saying that Microsoft is somehow trying to "sabotage" anything. It seems like if anything they would be attempting to mitigate a security risk.
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Because disabling ethernet is a security "feature" and not risk. Non-admin can easily disable the ethernet connection but Microsoft have fucked it up so you have to do a couple more clicks. I want it back to how it was, enable/disable and not just disable.
 
rezerekted said:
Because disabling ethernet is a security "feature" and not risk. Non-admin can easily disable the ethernet connection but Microsoft have fucked it up so you have to do a couple more clicks. I want it back to how it was, enable/disable and not just disable.
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No it isn't really. Why would cutting off your connection to the internet, not be considered a risk? And turning on connections to the internet are considered even more of a risk. So I am not really sure where you think you are going with this one. With just a few keystrokes you can still do it. Although really it should be locked down so only admins, or at least limit it to power users enable/disable network connections.
 
rezerekted said:
This used to work on Win7 fine. You create a shortcut to network connection and then you can enable/disable the connection with a right click of the shortcut. On Win8.1 doing the same thing only allows you to disable the connection and to enable it you have to select Open file location from the shortcut.

WTF Microsoft? To me it appears they deliberately sabotaged the ease of disco/enable the internet connection. Yes, I am calling it "sabotage".
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Wow, M$ failure. WTF why would M$ do something so stupid?! OMG, I didn't even realize they fucked this up so bad! I am seriously about to call up their support line and complain.

This sucks...gonna look into uninstalling Win10 and using Linux or something. So infuriating.
 
st4rk said:
This sucks...gonna look into uninstalling Win10 and using Linux or something. So infuriating.
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Make sure it's a fairly obscure one and you compile your own kernel. Don't want peasants in your kingdom! :ROFLMAO:
 
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Linux allows it and it is done perfectly with enable/disable from the system tray, which is how Microsoft should do it too. Leaving your Internet open 24/7 is just asking to get hacked, and people do get hacked because it. They turn the PC into a bot or even use it as a child porn server.
 
rezerekted said:
Linux allows it and it is done perfectly with enable/disable from the system tray, which is how Microsoft should do it too. Leaving your Internet open 24/7 is just asking to get hacked, and people do get hacked because it. They turn the PC into a bot or even use it as a child porn server.
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Nice interpretation, and no "Linux" does not do that, certain distributions do, but as a premise, Linux locks out network changes from regular users and only allows admins to make those changes. Allowing any old user to enable/disable your connection is a serious security flaw and is just asking to get your system pwned.
 
You should send a complaint to Microsoft then because they have the option available. They just do it poorly when they already had it done perfectly on Win7. One step forward, two steps back.
 
Yep Windows 10 is a logical step to the direction where Microsoft has been taking each version of Windows. More control to Microsoft, less control for the end user.

If you run Microsoft Windows(tm) you're a guest in Microsofts operating system instead of operating your own.
 
rezerekted said:
You should send a complaint to Microsoft then because they have the option available. They just do it poorly when they already had it done perfectly on Win7. One step forward, two steps back.
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I actually believe they still have it done poorly and it was atrocious in Win7. Giving normal users the ability to enable/disable network connections is a security risk period. What they should have is require the user to elevate permissions to do such a thing. In fact, part of my job used to be to write policies that required just that case. In my current role, I work mostly with Linux, and allowing a user to enable/disable connections is serious violation. Only certain users are granted that permission and they are giving very specific limitations on their elevation capabilities to do it.
 
All they need to do is make it an option in GPedit to require elevation or not. Choice is good. Either way, Microsoft, done fucked it up from how it was in Win7 and I suspect they did it deliberately so that people could not easily disco from the Internet. Can't spy on people that are disco from the Internet.
 
If someone wants to disconnect from the internet he can always pull the plug. How's that for a security risk. Do you glue your ethernet cables?
 
B00nie said:
If someone wants to disconnect from the internet he can always pull the plug. How's that for a security risk. Do you glue your ethernet cables?
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You could even try turning the machine off when you're not using it?

I'd imagine that'd disconnect the interwebz....
 
No, I may want to use my PC for other things that don't require the Internet. BTW, I read a story about a guy in the UK who was arrested because his PC had been turned into a child porn server so it does happen. It happens to people that are connected to the Internet 24/7. It doesn't happen to people like me.
 
rezerekted said:
No, I may want to use my PC for other things that don't require the Internet. BTW, I read a story about a guy in the UK who was arrested because his PC had been turned into a child porn server so it does happen. It happens to people that are connected to the Internet 24/7. It doesn't happen to people like me.
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I find such a scenario massively unlikely, however there are options. The problem is that you probably won't even consider them as you want Windows, the problem is that you also want control and that's just not going to happen under Windows anymore.

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rezerekted said:
I have that too but I mostly use Windows.
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I'm fairly certain you don't have options like that under Windows 10, I know my Windows 10 machine doesn't.

At most it has Aeroplane Mode, which naturally only works with WiFi or BT/NFC types of connections.
 
I use dual boot Elementary OS/Win8.1 and in Elementary I have the same disconnect/connect option you posted. In Win8.1 I can connect/disconnect too but the process is a bit longer, which is all my complaint is.
 
rezerekted said:
I use dual boot Elementary OS/Win8.1 and in Elementary I have the same disconnect/connect option you posted. In Win8.1 I can connect/disconnect too but the process is a bit longer, which is all my complaint is.
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Ah, I see. ;)
 
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