How to change network from Public to Private in Windows 10 | 4 methods demonstrated
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- You may want to changes in network profile of your windows 10 PC to make it discover able to others or not. I have listed down 4 methods in this tutorial. Basis your comfort you may choose upon any one and do the needful.
When you make change in your windows 10 network location, you will notice that by default it is set to public, which is most restrictive, to share folders and drives, you will need to make this change to private.
Summary of methods explained in this is given below:
Forget password under manage known networks- When you enter your wifi password, it asks you whether you want to make your PC discoverable to other systems in the network or not. If you choose yes - it means network selected is private and if you choose no - network selection is public.
Second method that is discussed here is about doing doing toggle between making your PC discover able or not. This can be done in both the cases - when your PC is connected with LAN and when it is connected with WiFi.
Steps are simple to follow..
Go to settings from start menu - then left click on wifi router icon you see- you will notice a toggle bar that says- make your PC discoverable or not. Do the relevant change and proceed.
For some reason if this does not work, you will need to go to run window on your windows 10 system, type netplwiz there, check that you have chosen administrator there, steps in this explain guide on how to troubleshoot. Restart the system is it does not help.
3. Make changes in registry: You need to follow thiese steps .. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -SOFTWARE - Microsoft -Windows NT - CurrentVersion -NetworkList - Profiles, makes changes in category between 0 and 1, relevant changes will be made in changing the current profile of network between private and public.
4. Local security policy: This method works on windows 10 pro version, follow this method if you are a professional user of windows 10.
While explaining one method would have also been ok but i thought to share multiple methods, so if you get stuck somewhere you can switch and do the needful in switching between current profile by following other method.
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About the creator of this video:
Harish Bali- Myself - I love to learn about use of technology in day today life. I use this channel - Technofare as a means to share with others what ever i learn about technology.
I try to keep my tutorials as simple as possible, try going step by step. I look forward to getting feedback from viewers that can help me do my job better.
Do share your inputs in this tutorial, should you have any query, please put that in comments below. Thanks for your time.
I was looking for solution for few hours before I found your channel. Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot for sharing such a valuable thing in this channel. I was stuck in changing my network to private from public as it was necessary for VPN connection. I spent already 6 hours searching different articles , and this video at the last part helped me a lot. Thank u so much for ur help☺️☺️☺️God Bless you🙂
Wooo! This is a comprehensive down deep explanation on public/private network settings. If is doesn't solve your problem, you will at minimum learn a bit about the various settings for public private settings in Windows 10 Pro
Harish, gotta say, thorough job of showing the different ways to do this changing, best I've seen, too. Some instructions have users traveling in a circle back to the start and accomplishing nothing, but you were very clear precise, and thanks a lot, really commendable.
so nice of you
Wow such an Awesome Tutorial. This is something a lot of IT pros overlook but can burn your time in trying to fix this. Thanks Sir.
Thank you so much! The last method worked for me! However, it came back to public when I rebooted. Now I understand what happened. My Anti-virus software, AVAST, made network public in its firewall setting. When I changed to private in AVAST, my PC became normal. Phew~
thanks for that remark, that saved me a mountain of trouble. Was able to set the profile to my liking via Avast firewall...
you are a angel thank you
Thank you for making this video I could not know what to do if this video wasn’t on TH-cam Thank you 👍
This video very helpful, thank you so much. I watched 3 video befor watching this, but i got my solution in your video
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
Thank you very much for the help I don't know why Microsoft make the settings so hard for users to work out. I had to watch till 6 minutes into your video because the normal way of changing it wouldn't work I just don't know why they do this.
The reason Microsoft does this is because they fired all their experts (am thinking it was around the end of 2014). They did this in order to keep their bank accounts full and then hired lots of people who have no idea at all about Windows!! They in essence kicked their "loyal customers" to the curb, forcing Windows 10 on every op to date. This is why they will not offer any more operating systems, all the people they hired for the job are simply winging it. Windows 10 is their last operating system. It's clear as a bell, just go to any of their support pages, you'll find all the help customers receive are from Microsoft's customers, not Microsoft support techs, they trip all over themselves!
Ding dong(s) 😡🤬
Method 3 and 4 worked for me thanks !
ty so much sir Am so grateful honestly I watched lots of videos but this is the one
the like I gave u is not enough am so thankful
ty ty
Please ignore my previous request. I have found it by checking the box Show Hidden Files under View.Can't believe that it has taken me 3 hours to work that one out! Sorry to have been a nuisance, Bryan
Thanks
Great tips! what do you do if none of those changes hold? ie changing the category value in Regedit, when the user is set as Admin? we have a new router and it wants to stay in Public mode, it seems. I dont know why when it is for home use. nothing I try to do is working. if I can change the network, it only holds for a few seconds or minutes and then when I change screens or try to reboot to fully implement any changes, I find anything has gone back to how it was, in this case, that means my Wifi is set back to Public. thank you so much
you are a genius bro
10 hours of internet to find how to change damn connetion and only option was in this video with secpol.msc ty man
Great video, but I tried all the methods and still ny network is Public. However. I read in a comment, that a user found the solution in the Avast antivirus program. I then checked my ESET antivirus program and it has taken control of my Firewall and WIFI settings. I have no way to change this but I have sent a mail to the ESET company with lots of screen shots. So thank you for this very thorough explanation. One question. You start off by saying that Public is more restricted. Does that mean that Private is not as safe?
Very nice! you got thumbs up!
Am using a new laptop with WINDOWS 10 Home Single Language, the Change Connection Properties option is not there. please assist. Wants to transfer files from my old Laptop and process needs to change public to private network.
Oh man I was tired of looking how to do this and the "problem" is that my Windows is Pro version XD
I ran the "secpol.msc" and it worked perfectly!
nice
Registry one worked for me
Thanks!
Nice Video, Thank u Very Much
so nice to have your viewership on Technofare, great thanks again
you need to just go to internet settings on windows settings > Change Connection properties > and choose Public/Private....
A faster way if you are using PC and network Ethernet cable.
Find and go to your "Network Status" then click on "Change connection properties" and change from public to private.
Literally the easiest.. plus you can do it if it is wireless too!
Thanks, I have an Internet Problem on my Computer with Ethernet and now thx to you my Private Settings are permanently set. But my Internet isn’t fixed I have a Devolo Magic WiFi Box that transports WiFi from a Router to my Pc with LAN Cable and yeah, Internet Problem not Solved but Private Problem solved, need help with Internet, help!
what about if you have a Mac
I am running a new pc on windows 10 which is now in my local private network with 2 other computers but I am unable to see a user called 'Public' as on my other computers, one running Windows 10 and the other 7. Do you have any thoughts on how to show user 'Public'? Any suggestions would be most helpful. many thanks, Bryan
For me the WiFi is not showing up sometimes plz help
Thanks! The only thing that work for me was 7:10.
I did everything in this video and still it shows to be public. If I navigate to windows nt -> ... -> profiles there is only 1 thing called Default Reg_sz, please help
Seriously? Several methods were shown and frankly his is the best I've seen in changing the two positions privare to public and vice versa. Try from the start, unless your machine has a program preventing these actions, one should work,
i would urge to start the complete process from beginning, this complete process is tricky, you miss on any one step and you will miss on most... go slow i am sure you can do it.... thanks
Still having problems? Go to "Network and Internet Settings", Change Connection Properties, then change to Private
nothing worked ..i looked for secpol.msc.. doesn't exist in my windows 10 machine...!
and yes i typed correctly and didn't miss a step !
At 7:16 what if the location says not configured
thanksssss
cool
it does not work. neet an update this tutorial
nothing worked any suggestions?
If that did not work, you might want to try this on your PC.
Go to your "Network Status" then click on "Change connection properties" and change from public to private.
Pls help me i dont still get it
Can you give me your email
So i can send you my video of
My network is not working
And you can check it
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Thanks