Windows 10: Turn Off LAC Via Batch File

Windows 10 1909 (18363.720)

Back in my Windows 7 days, I created a batch file, that watched for the unexpected/accidental disconnection of my VPN, and
immediately killed my main Ethernet connection.

Worked flawlessly, saved me a number of times.

Well now I am in Windows 10. Batch file almost works fine in 10, except for the line that kills my main connection.

Back in "7", my main Ethernet connection was called, "Local Area Connection 1", and my VPN was, "Local Area Connection 2".

Now in 10, my main is simply called, "Ethernet", and my VPN is called, "Local Area Connection".

So, I made the "name" adjustments to my batch file, but, it no longer kills my main, when the VPN drops.

Here is the line, from my batch file, that used to kill my main in "7", but does not kill it in "10". Keep in
mind that I have updated the main name from the old, "Local Area Connection 1", to "Ethernet" now:

netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" DISABLE

What is the proper way to drop my main in "10" via batch file?

:)

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Batch file to ping network

No, batch files are extremely easy.

A "If" requires three extra steps.

Code is not how much you can put in, but how lite can you make it and still perform the functions.

So

@ echo off


ping 1.4.1.4 >a.txt

findstr /m "Request timed out" a.txt
if %errorlevel%%==0 (
echo Save our nets!!!
)

pause