Windows 10: Turn On or Off Device Portal for Desktop on Windows 10 PC

How to: Turn On or Off Device Portal for Desktop on Windows 10 PC

How to Turn On or Off Device Portal for Desktop on Windows 10 PC


Information The Windows Device Portal lets you configure and manage your device remotely over a network or USB connection. It also provides advanced diagnostic tools to help you troubleshoot and view the real time performance of your Windows device.

The Device Portal is a web server on your device that you can connect to from a web browser on your PC. If your device has a web browser, you can also connect locally with the browser on your device.

Windows Device Portal is available on each device family, but features and setup vary based on the device's requirements.

Starting in Windows 10 version 1607, additional developer features are available for desktop. These features are available only when developer mode is turned on.

Device Portal lets you view diagnostic information and interact with your desktop over HTTP from your browser. You can use Device Portal to do the following:

• See and manipulate a list of running processes
• Install, delete, launch, and terminate apps
• Change Wi-Fi profiles, view signal strength, and see ipconfig
• View live graphs of CPU, memory, I/O, network, and GPU usage
• Collect process dumps
• Collect ETW traces
• Manipulate the isolated storage of sideloaded apps

Device Portal on desktop provides the standard set of pages.

• Apps manager
• Xbox Live
• File Explorer
• Running processes
• Performance
• Debug
• Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) logging
• Performance tracing
• Device manager
• Networking
• Crash data
• Features
• 3D View
• Simulation
• Scratch

For information about Device Portal, see:

• Windows Device Portal overview
• Device Portal for Desktop

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Device Portal for desktop on your Windows 10 PC.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to turn on or off Device Portal.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On Windows Device Portal for Desktop
• Option Two: To Turn Off Windows Device Portal for Desktop

EXAMPLE: Windows Device Portal
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OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On Windows Device Portal for Desktop
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Update & security icon.

2. Click/tap on For developers on the left side, and turn on (select) Developer mode under Use developer features on the right. (see screenshot below)




3. Turn on Turn on remote diagnostics over local area network connections under Enable Device Portal on the right. (see screenshot below)



4. Turn on Authentication under Enable Device Portal on the right. (see screenshot below step 3)


Note HTTPS is required for authentication and secure communication.

If you are using Device Portal in a protected environment, like a test lab, where you trust everyone on your local network, have no personal information on the device, and have unique requirements, you can turn off Authentication. This enables unencrypted communication, and allows anyone with the IP address of your computer to control it.



5. Create a username and password for Device Portal, and click/tap on Apply. (see screenshot below step 3)


Warning For security purposes, do not use your Microsoft account or other Windows credentials.



6. If prompted, click/tap on Yes to confirm changing your username and password for Device Portal. (see screenshot below)



7. You will now see URL links (ex: Wi-Fi and localhost) to step 3)


Note Take note of the port number (ex: "50443") applied to the end of the URL: this port number is randomly generated when Device Portal is enabled, but should remain consistent between reboots of the desktop.

You can choose from two ways to connect to Device Portal: local host and over the local network (including VPN).

Local Network (ex: Wi-Fi) = Use this address to connect over a local network.

Localhost = Use this address to view Device Portal locally.





8. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.




OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn Off Windows Device Portal for Desktop
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Update & security icon.

2. Click/tap on For developers on the left side, and turn off Turn on remote diagnostics over local area network connections under Enable Device Portal on the right. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.






That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Turn On or Off Developer Mode in Windows 10
• How to Connect to Device Portal for Windows 10 PC
• How to Turn On or Off Device Portal for Mobile on Windows 10 Mobile Phone

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I cannot connet my Lumia 950XL to my windows 10 desk top computer, I use to work fine, however problem started today.

Try turning off the phone and then connecting it again. If it doesn't work, open Settings>Update & Security>For developers and enable Developer mode. Then enable the device discovery and device portal options and connect the phone to your PC again.

 

Windows 10 stopped recognising my Nokia Lumia

Try turning off the phone and then connecting it again. If it doesn't work, open Settings>Update & Security>For developers and enable Developer mode. Then enable the device discovery and device portal options and connect the phone to your PC again.

 

I haven't found a way to do so easily with Registry Editor considering the authentication.

 

After you Enable Device Portal you can use below settings for Authorization:
Just how to Enable/Disable Device Portal in Registry?!

Code: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WebManagement\Service] "HttpPort"=dword:0000c3a0 "HttpsPort"=dword:0000c50b "RequireDevUnlock"=dword:00000001 ;Authorization "UseDefaultAuthorizer"=dword:00000001 ;0 to use your own port "UseDynamicPorts"=dword:00000001[/quote]

 

I don't see a simple on/off registry option for this setting. *Sad