• How to Disable Ad Hoc Wireless Connections on Vista

    Mitch Tulloch Posted On July 18, 2008
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    Windows Vista won’t automatically create ad hoc wireless connections with other computers, but for greater security you may want to disable ad-hoc wireless connections entirely. You can do this by running the following Netsh command at an elevated command prompt:

    netsh wlan add filter permission=denyall networktype=adhoc

    To re-enable ad hoc wireless connections, run this command:

    netsh wlan del filter permission=denyall networktype=adhoc

    For more information on networking in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, see the Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP) from Microsoft Press.

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    Mitch Tulloch is a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud technologies who has written more than a thousand articles and has authored or been series editor for over 50 books for Microsoft Press. He is a twelve-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the technical category of Cloud and Datacenter Management.




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