Windows 10: Toggle Wifi Radio or Airplane mode via command line?

Hi everyone

I am trying to find a way of toggling the wifi radio on and off using command line? The same goes for the airplane mode.

I already know that netsh can disable the adapter but thats not what I want. I want to just disable/enable the radio for the adapter. Windows 10 has the buttons on the interface called where you can turn wifi off or enable airplane mode.

The laptop hardware switch when enabled does the same therefore there must be a call made from the hardware to the OS for this. Just can't find what it is.

Please help.

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Permanent Way to Turn Off Airplane Mode for Windows 10 Desktops

How do you completely disable the Airplane mode feature. Technically airplane mode only pertains to Cellular radios and not WiFi or Bluetooth.

This is a useless feature on a desktop or notebook without a Cellular radio.

How do you permanently disable the Airplane mode feature so it is no longer accessible via the Action Center and Settings -> Network & Internet ?

 

Permanent Way to Disable Airplane Mode for Windows 10

How do you completely disable the Airplane mode feature. Technically airplane mode only pertains to Cellular radios and not WiFi or Bluetooth.

This is a useless feature on a desktop or notebook without a Cellular radio.

How do you permanently disable the Airplane mode feature so it is no longer accessible via the Action Center, Settings -> Network & Internet, or notebooks hotkeys?

 

Ideas here:
networking - Enable/disable wireless interface in a bat file - Super User
windows - How to turn on WIFI via cmd? - Super User

Maybe you will be able to find sthg you can use there.

 

Already aware of those commands but all they just do is disable the whole adapter. I want a way of just disabling the radio. Effectively what airplane mode does or turning the wifi off. Try it on your Windows 10 and you'll see that the adapter stays enabled but the radio of the adapter is turned off.

If windows can do it, there must be a way of calling the API that triggers this.

 

What laptop do you have? I have a Lenovo and use TpFnF5.exe (which is part of their Access Connections suite).

Every boot I use it to turn off Bluetooth by adding a switch to the end like this TpFnF5.exe /btoff . There are similar switches to turn on/off WAN WWAN etc so TpFnF5.exe /alloff turns of all radios.

If you don't have Lenovo then I don't know. Perhaps it would work, perhaps not. If you want to try it download Access connections from Lenovo. You don't need to install it - just extract TpFnF5.exe, GlWrap.dll and NativeWl.dll to some directory then call the exe with the relevant switch.

If not there maybe a similar app for your brand and you could find the relevant .exe. Lenovo stopped doing this software in windows 7 so it might be oldish but in my case it still works.

Other than that if you don't want to disable the adapter with powershell I guess you'd have to trace what registry changes are made when you disable Wi-Fi through the GUI.

 

Hi, below are the keys listed as modified during the period from first scan to 2nd scan of registry, when Flight Mode (US Airplane) is turned on (most are nothing to do with this, incidental, but listed for completeness).

Of these
Code: HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\RadioManagement\SystemRadioState\: 0x00000000 HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\RadioManagement\SystemRadioState\: 0x00000001 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0004\SoftwareRadioOff: 0x00000000 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0004\SoftwareRadioOff: 0x00000001 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0004\SwRadioState: 0x00000001 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0004\SwRadioState: 0x00000000 stand out. You can create a reg file to do that and implement it to suit your purposes. 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Its mainly Dell and Toshiba laptops running Windows 10.

I've seen the registry that the airplane mode and the wifi off/on changes. However when manually changing it, the setting does not have any effect. From what I have read, changing the reg key manually requires a restart for the OS to pick up the change.

 

You can try these if you want for a quick try. They work for me on a Lenovo X201 running up to date 10 Pro. You could of course download it from Lenovo as I mentioned.

Lenovo exe.zip

Restore them somewhere and try TpFnF5 /alloff from wherever you save them.

I'll try the registry thing as it has been bugging me mildly for a while.

Out of interest what is wrong with disabling the adapter? Power saving? I've always been a bit confused as to what does what to be honest. Whether airplane mode turns off the power and disabling the adapter doesn't for example.

 

I tried the disabling the adapter using scheduled tasks on event i.e. connecting or disconnecting Ethernet. It does do the job. However when you enable the wireless adapter, it does not automatically pick up the wireless networks and reconnect again. A user has to manually click the wireless icon on the task bar for it to start scanning for wireless networks. If a user does not click it, it will eventually do it but after a few minutes which is far too long for me.

As my users switch between wired and wireless, I want it to be as seamless as possible without much interruption in service.

When you turn off the radio using WiFi off/on or airplane mode, it works perfectly and reconnects automatically. But it appears there is no command for this therefore it cant be added as a scheduled task on an event.

For now I have just got it to disconnect from the wireless network and reconnect. However it won't prevent users from manually reconnecting to wireless while connected by Ethernet.