Enable or Disable Local Area Connections in Windows 7

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Video: Enable or Disable Local Area Connections in Windows 7

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   Start off by accessing your control panel

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   To go there, we need to click on the 'Start Menu' button on the lower left corner of the screen.

   

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   Then, click 'Control Panel'

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   Once the 'Control Panel' window opens, you need to click 'Network and Internet'

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   From here, we need to click 'Network and Sharing Center'

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   Now a new section will load, displaying our network type, connection type, and our computer

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   There are several sub-sections on the left side of the window

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   We need to click 'Change adapter settings'.

   

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   The primary local area connection is now enabled on this computer

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   To disable it, right click on the 'Local Area Connection', and click 'Disable'

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   Once we've clicked 'Disable' it will turn grey, which means that it's no longer working

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    To enable it, we need to right click it again, and click 'Enable'

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    Wait for it to fully load

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    Once it's loaded, we'll have access to the internet again.

    

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to disable or enable Local Area Connection on Windows 7 computers

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