Permanently Stop Windows 11 from Changing Network Profile Settings After Update

Hello,

To permanently stop Windows 11 from changing network profile settings after updates, you can follow these steps:

1. Open the Settings app by pressing Windows key + I.
2. Go to the "Network & internet" section.
3. Click on "Advanced network settings".
4. Under the "Network profile" section, click on the network profile you want to change (e.g., Private or Public).
5. Toggle off the option that says "Set as metered connection".
6. Repeat the above steps for all the network profiles you want to configure.
7. By setting the network profiles as non-metered connections, Windows 11 will not change the network profile settings after updates.

Regards,

Zunhui

I checked this on all 3 of our computers.

1. The "metered connection" is under "Network & Internet" and then Ethernet for me.
2. None of our computers had "metered connection" toggled on.
3. Can someone give an answer that actually solves this problem?

We have software that requires our computers to remain connected and I'm the only computer savvy (ish) person in our office. Not IT and I have to fix this every other Microsoft software update, which is ridiculous.

TBH I do not think there is an actual fix for this. I have seen many other people report the same issue and as usual many advisors and techs reply with a fix that doesn't apply to the situation.

In fact I am an admin in a Windows 10 and 11 help group on Facebook. One of the other admins on there even has a regedit mod that adds an option in a menu to switch the Network from public to private. They gave me the mod but I have not been able to get it to work so far.

Either way that would not exactly work for your issue because you would still have to go to each computer to use it.

Not really a fix, but maybe a workaround. Create a .bat file with this powershell command in it.

powershell "Set-NetConnectionProfile -name 'Ethernet Name' -NetworkCategory Private"

Then add that .bat file as a startup item in the registry here.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Everytime the computer starts up it shoud set whatever ethernet connection you name in the .bat file to Private. Maybe...

Not really a fix, but maybe a workaround. Create a .bat file with this powershell command in it.

powershell "Set-NetConnectionProfile -name 'Ethernet Name' -NetworkCategory Private"

Then add that .bat file as a startup item in the registry here.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Everytime the computer starts up it shoud set whatever ethernet connection you name in the .bat file to Private. Maybe...

It's highly likely this will get reset every time there is a major update, which is about the same time the actual network type gets reset.

No, that doesn't work. I never use metered connections for any of the 500+ PCs I manage, and every so often a Windows update will switch a private connection back to public. This happens even on desktop systems which stay in place in an office situation, and do not change networks.

How about Microsoft stops mucking with the user's network settings with every bloody update?