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Shut Off Networking / Wifi With Netsh (Windows) - Hackers - Jan 9, 2024

If you want to turn off wireless connections or other networking options, it's easy to do that with netsh. This is a Windows only tutorial, but Linux or Mac users could still use some of the examples at end of the guide for running commands via languages - but you would need to adjust it to not use netsh and instead use your native OS APIs and features instead.

First we will use a command that shows us the network profiles we've connected to in the past:

List All Network Profiles

Code 
netsh wlan show profiles

Example response:

Code 
All User Profile     : office-internal

    All User Profile     : Mandarin Oriental 2

    All User Profile     : Omni Guest

    All User Profile     : Home A107C

Disconnect From Current Network

Code 
netsh wlan disconnect

Delete Specific Network Profile

Code 
netsh wlan delete profile name="Home A107C"

Disable Computer Wireless Networking / Wifi

Code 
netsh interface set interface \"Wi-Fi\" admin=disable

Disable Computer Ethernet / Wired Connections

Code 
netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" admin=disabled

You may be required to use escalated, administrator permissions on the terminal when using it. Similarly, if you run the commands from another program then that program would need same permission level.

Here are some ways you can execute these commands via code:

C++

Code 
#include <cstdlib>

system("netsh interface set interface \"Wi-Fi\" admin=disable");

PHP

PHP Code 


<?php
exec('netsh interface set interface "Wi-Fi" admin=disable');
?>

Python

Code 
import subprocess

subprocess.run('netsh interface set interface "Wi-Fi" admin=disable', shell=True)

The three above are tested by me and have been used in past to run other commands. The code below is not tested, but I asked GPT to create some examples based on this for C, Java, and Go as I know several HF users are coding with those:

Spoiler (Click to View)

I hope that this is helpful to you in some way for managing your network profiles and possibly automating this in your scripts as well. Ask questions or share knowledge below :)

RE: Shut Off Networking / Wifi With Netsh (Windows) - Lor‌d - Jan 9, 2024

I know this isn't the case but could you imagine the PHP executing that on the website visitor and killing someone's internet when they load the page. That'd be hilarious

RE: Shut Off Networking / Wifi With Netsh (Windows) - Hackers - Jan 9, 2024

(Jan 9, 2024 05:17 PM)Lor‌d Wrote: I know this isn't the case but could you imagine the PHP executing that on the website visitor and killing someone's internet when they load the page. That'd be hilarious

It would be cool to see a PHP client-side language, but at the end of the day it would have to be a wrapper for JS or a custom extension, or whole new web browser or major companies would have to support PHP(client) - like within Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, etc.

I would like to see that one day though. It would be a cool way for PHP devs to easily move to the frontend and use familiar functions & syntax, similar to how JS devs were able to move to backend with Node.js, Next, and similar frameworks/stacks.

RE: Shut Off Networking / Wifi With Netsh (Windows) - Lor‌d - Jan 9, 2024

(Jan 9, 2024 07:59 PM)nodes Wrote: It would be cool to see a PHP client-side language, but at the end of the day it would have to be a wrapper for JS or a custom extension, or whole new web browser or major companies would have to support PHP(client) - like within Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, etc.

I would like to see that one day though. It would be a cool way for PHP devs to easily move to the frontend and use familiar functions & syntax, similar to how JS devs were able to move to backend with Node.js, Next, and similar frameworks/stacks.

I agree but I've also found learning JS with having a bit of a background in PHP wasn't too terrible.
I don't see any major companies jumping at the chance to have client sided PHP any time soon

RE: Shut Off Networking / Wifi With Netsh (Windows) - Hackers - Jan 9, 2024

(Jan 9, 2024 08:06 PM)Lor‌d Wrote: I agree but I've also found learning JS with having a bit of a background in PHP wasn't too terrible.
I don't see any major companies jumping at the chance to have client sided PHP any time soon

Hahaha very true - it would be more helpful for the devs out there than the clients & customers. Typescript is exciting enough anyways to spice up the life of JS devs.

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RE: Shut Off Networking / Wifi With Netsh (Windows) - Hackers - Mar 16, 2026

I still think this is useful to people :)