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Enable or Disable Network Connections in Windows 8

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Hi, you're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to enable or disable network connections on Windows 8 computers.

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Move the mouse cursor to the lower-left corner of the screen and right-click the thumbnail that appears
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Click "Network Connections"
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When the window opens, we can change the settings here. In this example, we have four connections. We have "Bluetooth", "Ethernet", "Tunngle" and "WiFi". Let's disable the Ethernet connection.

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Right-click "Ethernet"
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Click "Disable"
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Notice that the Ethernet connection has changed color
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In this case, it's gray instead of blue. This means that this is now disabled. Let's enable it.
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Right-click "Ethernet" again
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Click "Enable"
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We can also enable by double-clicking "Ethernet"
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Wait for it to finish
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It will be enabled again, and show in blue. We can do this same thing for any other connection type.
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This concludes our tutorial on how to enable or disable network connections on Windows 8 computers
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