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by kris

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How can it be disbled a network adapter status in windows 2000 using scripting?

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by murray.wall

Try this,
netsh interface show interface
Then copy/paste the Dedicated Interface name into the following line...
netsh interface set interface name={IFName} admin=enabled connect=disconnected

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http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000ddk/Util/1.0/NT5XP/EN-US/DevCon.exe

1. At the command line, type: devcon hwids * > out.txt
2. open out.txt and look for your NIC. For example, my laptop has the following entry:

PCMCIAINTEL-ETHEREXPRESS(TM)_PRO/100_PC_CARD_MOBILE_ADAPTER16-33F81
Name: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Mobile PC Card 16 Adapter
Hardware ID's:
PCMCIAIntel-EtherExpress(TM)_PRO/100_PC_Card_Mobile_Adapter16-33F8
PCMCIAIntel-0089-010A

3. you're interested in the hardware id's, in my case, PCMCIAIntel-EtherExpress(TM)_PRO/100_PC_Card_Mobile_Adapter16-33F8

4. to disable the nic, type: devcon disable - so, in my case: devcon disable "PCMCIAIntel-EtherExpress(TM)_PRO/100_PC_Card_Mobile_Adapter16-33F8"

5. to enable the nic, just replace disable with enable.

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