How to make Windows 10 to be hidden for some networks and prevent some interfaces from appearing in “Available Wi-Fi networks” dialog?
When I open the Network status tab I see the following option:
Pressing on it open all available Wi-Fi networks around:
Is it possible to make Windows 10 to be hidden for some networks/interfaces and prevent some interfaces from appearing in this dialog?
Thanks
Is it possible to make Windows 10 to be hidden for some networks/interfaces and prevent some interfaces from appearing in this dialog?
You can use:
netsh wlan add filter permission=block ssid="WIFI_NAME" networktype=infrastructure
to remove specific SSIDs.
Over time however, new points keep popping up. I have learned to simply ignore the access points.
That works better for me.
Followup (to address additional issues raised:
netsh
and netsh wlan
have numerous options. Run netsh wlan /?
to see the options available.
So if you wanted to get a list of wireless profile you are using run:
netsh wlan show profiles
.
You can get a list of all the access points your Windows machine sees by running:
netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid
(courtesy of members posts on this issue)
Finally you can use netsh commands in a batch file.