PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Disable Quickly All Net Adapters

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to quickly disable all network adapters on a laptop.

 How can I easily disable all network adapters on my Windows 8 laptop with Windows PowerShell 3.0?

 Use the Get-NetAdapter cmdlets to retrieve all network adapters and pipe the results to the Disable-NetAdapter cmdlets. Make sure you suppress the confirmation prompts, as shown here.

Get-NetAdapter | Disable-NetAdapter -Confirm:$false

Note   The above command requires Admin rights.