Temporarily Disable Hyper-V, WSL2 Network Adapters in Windows 11

Question

I'd like to temporarily disable all Hyper-V, WSL2 network adapters in Windows 11 Pro. I PC games w/my kids sometimes in the evenings and when those adapters are enabled, I cannot join LAN matches (I presume due to subnet scanning of 172.** instead of 192.168.* for my LAN).

When I disable Hyper-V, all problems go away, but that's sort of a pain to have to do. I'd rather have a script that I can run to enable and disable all Hyper-V/WSL2 adapters.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Jon M. Davidson

Answer 1

Try creating and using an external vSwitch instead of NATing via the default switch.

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Answer 2

Hi Jon,

You can use a command prompt to enable and disable hyper-v, so you could use a batch file:

dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V

and

dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V /All

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