Windows Network adaptor disable enable via Powershell

Question

My network card is rubbish and until I get a new one I need a quickfix. My idea was to have a program ping my router and when the ping failed 3 or 4 times, it would reset the network adaptor for my wifi card, however I do not know the command line commands to do this!

I found the following in a stackoverflow question:

$adaptor = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*Wireless*"}
$adaptor.Disable()
$adaptor.Enable()

However to run this the script needs to be running under admin privileges and I do not know how to fix that without manually launchign powershell to execute the script

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:16:55Z

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This post shows how to elevate PowerShell scripts to Administrator access:

Elevate Powershell scripts

To do it, you create a scheduled task (without a set schedule), and set it to run elevated. Then, give your users rights to execute that task. This blog post describes the process in more detail:

http://huddledmasses.org/vista-setuid-how-to-elevate-without-prompting/

In addition, here is a blog post that goes over the Win32_NetworkAdapter class, and how to use it in PowerShell, in detail:

Using PowerShell to Manage Network Interfaces and Windows Services http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2008/09/26/using-powershell-to-manage-network-interfaces-and-windows-services.aspx

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:16

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Timo Over a year ago

The post by Rick is deprecated and works up until PS5.1 because it uses gwmi and not gcmi.

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