Windows 10: Force nic card to use existing network profile

Hello,On one Windows 10 computer, I would like to force network card to use existing registry network profile.I tried to remove actual new one to check if network card will used old one but it create automatically a new network profile.Network profiles are stored in registry here:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles{a...}{b...}{c...}{d...}Currently used {d...} and I would like to use {a...}. If I delete {d...}, it create {e...}Any help appreciateThanks

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Replacment Nic Card Troubles

Got A Question> I Have A Dell Latitude Laptop Running A Dell DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card Network Adapter PCI And Want to Upgrade The NIc Card But Can't Find A Replacemnet card For Under $25;00 Dose Anyone Have Any Suggestions As To Were to find A Intel NIC Card With Blu Tooth?
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Network profile options in settings app are gone when sharing NIC

When you create an external switch in Hyper-V that uses your hardware NIC what will happen is that you'll no longer be able to configure network profile in settings app. Screenshot which shows profile options in settings app:

Screenshot which shows sharing your hardware NIC with external switch:

What will happen is that options are now gone:

To get these options back IIRC, it's not enough to release your NIC, ex. stop sharing it, it may also be necessary to perform network reset. Does anyone has an idea to get options back without having to release your NIC or reset network? My goal is to have the options but also keep sharing my NIC, but it seems that's not possible?

 

Windows uses wrong NIC in a dual NIC setup, Ignores metric at times.


I think the issue may have been caused by both connections being connected to the same gateway MAC address which caused Windows to put the two network cards in the same network profile. I, unsurprisingly, found no way to force the network cards to use a "fabricated" profile (to divide them) and they would still use the same one.

What I did find however was that I in the registry could add the DWORD "*NdisDeviceType" = Value "1" for the network card I don't want the system to use (NIC 2) which will cause Windows not to automatically check it for stuffs (Didn't read into it too much) and the effect is that the network card no longer is assigned a network profile and it no logner shows up in "View your active connections" under "Connections" (Where it would before show NIC 1 and NIC 2, it now only shows NIC 1) Which I think means Windows no longer recognizes NIC 2 as an active connection and hence won't try to use it even if NIC 1 messes up (so no load balance or bridge or fallover) ... Or at least I hope so.

I haven't yet been able to determine if this works or not, but I'll keep testing it. Cautiously hopeful. =)

Edit: And just a few seconds later I learned that it didn't work... Sigh.

Is there anyway I can make Windows THINK NIC 2 is LocalNetwork only? I know you can use Set-NetConnectionProfile to query -IPv4Connectivity but you can't input a new value. Is there any way to manually change that, or an equivalent value, for a specific NIC? (Not for a network profile, although I wonder about that as well)