Windows 10: sharing network connections - big picture

HI all,
been running fine on an ethernet connection, but wanted to see the wifi connection options
in Windows 10. Got an old USB Ralink network adapter, set a restore point and plugged it in.
Drivers installed and active within seconds.
Went to settings network and internet/wifi and connected to my router.

In control panel network and sharing center (see below), it shows both networks active.
How is this typically handled? If you start Edge or Firefox how do you control which one it uses?
What if you wanted to stop one temporarily? Do you have to go to device manager and disable
the HW, or is there something else, perhaps in the Network Sharing Center that controls this?
Thanks for any info




Edit - I did a little more research, apparently Windows, doesn't really let you choose on an App. basis,
but uses the one with the higher priority. It may be possible to use ipconfig /release to temporarily disable
the connection you want to stop, but I can't get the syntax to work. Apparently,
> ipconfig /release *Con* ... release all matching connections,
eg. "Wired Ethernet Connection 1" or
"Wired Ethernet Connection 2"
this is the info given in ipconfig /? - but not sure what to put for *con*

Anybody have any experience with two connections like this? (I know it's an unusual scenario, but I thought I would ask)

EDIT 2
This is the ipconfig syntax. if the command "ipconfig" shows

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe84::a856:f692:de91:fbc%10
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.106
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1

You can use
ipconfig /release "wi-fi"
and
ipconfig /release6 "wi-fi"
to release ipv4 and ipv6 respectively.

:)

 

HELP: critical software components are missing!

Thanks fjleon, your ICS trick worked.!

Anyone not sure what to do, follow these directions..

If you have previously enabled Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), and you decide to use a router instead of ICS to share an Internet connection among two or more computers, you'll need to disable ICS.

1.

Open Network Connections by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Network and Internet, clicking Network and Sharing Center, and then clicking Manage network connections.

2.

Right-click the shared connection, and then click Properties. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

3.

Click the Sharing tab, clear the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection check box, and then click OK.

If your not logged into your Admin account, click on the Admin bar while in Network connections.

 

Windows media player automatically shares OneDrive pictures folder on network

HI,

Thanks but this is not the problem I have (onedrive folder sharing). The problem is the Windows Media Player is linking to my OneDrive pictures folder and availing all the content (13 GB of back up pictures from PC and my mobile) on my home network which
can be accessed by anyone connecting to the my home network. Despite going to WMP and deleting the Onedrive folder from the shared folders list (right click on pictures/Manage Pictures Libraries and then remove OneDrive pictures folder) the dang WMP still
reconnects and addes Onedrive folder back to the list of libraries to be shared !

this is frustrating because first, WMP should not automatically connects by default to Onedrive without specifically requesting it the first place, then when I delete it form the list, it should not reconnect to it.

 

You are trying to find a complicated alternative way to do a very simple task.

Select the connection you want to disable, click Disable:




The connection is now disabled:




Enable it when again needed:

 

Thanks Kari, I see what you mean. That's OK, I've never put in a second adapter before, did it really just for
the learning opportunity. I now see (at least much better than before!) how some of these things fit together.

Now it would be interesting to see if there is a simple way of running Firefox through the ethernet and
Edge through the wi-fi at the same time. There's probably not any performance benefit since they're going
through the same router (in my case) but for proof of concept, it would be useful.

Some items I've read on the internet state that it's not possible.