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Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:58 PM | 1 vote
Hello,
I just went from Windows 8 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and are having a new learning experience.
My Wired network was automatically set to public and I have been trying to find how to change it to Private but I simply can't
The option is missing.
I followed this guide with perfect step-by-step pictures. But I am missing the option shown in the last step: https://tinkertry.com/how-to-change-windows-10-network-type-from-public-to-private#fix-for-wired-network-connections
Please see this screenshot of my settings in the same dialogue: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PPaV7Fj6xtOw6BeUZEj_6Mvezep7tXEC
Thankful for any W10 professionals trying to help!
Thank you in advance
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Saturday, June 30, 2018 9:09 PM âś…Answered | 3 votes
Ok, recreated what you are seeing, Admin rights are needed to change the network profile. I have logged in with a standard user and see the same as you. So from an Admin PowerShell prompt (right click start);
Get-NetConnectionProfile
#Note the InterfaceAlias
Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias Ethernet -NetworkCategory Private
#Substitute InterfaceAlias you noted for what is in that command.
Alternativley login with a admin account and make the change.
Sunday, June 24, 2018 7:33 PM
What Windows 10 version is this? Type winver in the start search, what is the version and build?
Monday, June 25, 2018 2:15 AM
If it is a recent version you should be able to change that from Network Status>Change network properties.
Bill
Saturday, June 30, 2018 12:52 PM | 1 vote
If it is a recent version you should be able to change that from Network Status>Change network properties.
Bill
The option simply does not exist in there
**OBS WIRED CONNECTION **
Winver = Windows 10 (dont say Pro but I have Pro)
Version
1803 (OS Build 17134.137)
Saturday, June 30, 2018 12:54 PM
What Windows 10 version is this? Type winver in the start search, what is the version and build?
Winver = Windows 10 (dont say Pro but I have Pro)
Version
1803 (OS Build 17134.137)
Friday, July 20, 2018 4:54 PM
Ok, recreated what you are seeing, Admin rights are needed to change the network profile. I have logged in with a standard user and see the same as you. So from an Admin PowerShell prompt (right click start);
Get-NetConnectionProfile
#Note the InterfaceAlias
Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias Ethernet -NetworkCategory Private
#Substitute InterfaceAlias you noted for what is in that command.
Alternativley login with a admin account and make the change.
Oo totally forgot about this thread and just noticed the issue again so I remembered. Thing is also I had to switch to WiFi and got the same issue. I didn't get the question to set priv/pub like I always did on W8
Thank you so much for taking your time and coming up with a simple solution!
Ran powershell as admin and followed your steps and now Private. Thank you so very much. I'm keeping this codepiece
HOWEVER there only exists one account and that is the admin account. So how would I log onto the admin account that you are speaking of? :(
Yes I'm on ck_ch not Guest, didn't even know I had Guest must be always installed automatically
Checking the users on the machine
PS C:\Windows\system32> net user
User accounts for \\DESKTOP-B7M3DLU
Administrator ck_ch DefaultAccount
Guest WDAGUtilityAccount
The command completed successfully.
And checking the only admin user more detailed
PS C:\Windows\system32> net user ck_ch
User name ck_ch
Full Name Charlie K
Comment
User's comment
Country/region code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never
Password last set 2018-06-23 19:37:43
Password expires Never
Password changeable 2018-06-23 19:37:43
Password required Yes
User may change password Yes
Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 2018-07-19 00:45:17
Logon hours allowed All
Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.
Friday, July 20, 2018 7:56 PM
HOWEVER there only exists one account and that is the admin account. So how would I log onto the admin account that you are speaking of? :(
Well you are logging in as an admin then, so no idea why you don't see the network profile settings in Settings...
Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:10 AM
I found that the section to change network profile doesn't appear when you have UAC set to the highest level.
Thursday, April 30, 2020 7:08 AM
While I had a slightly different issue which was that I was able to see these options, but I would try to update from Public to Private and the change wouldn't stick. The next time I went back to view the profile it just went straight back to Public.
I was able to resolve by going into my Anti-Virus' (Avast) Firewall settings and changing to Private there - and I saw that the change finally saved to the Window's network settings as well. So if you use 3rd party firewall software, it's worth checking to see if you can change your network type there.
I know this is an old thread, but I would have saved a lot of headache if I saw this answer when I pulled this thread up the first time, so I figured I'd share for the next person who stumbles upon here. Surprisingly I was not able to find any other topic that would fix my issue.