During the COVID-19 global event, I needed to set up VPNs, remote connections…

I also discovered that changing the network connection category can be quite a trick in Windows 10 GUI.

I discovered that is a simple task by using Powershell

Solution

• Open a Powershell window with administrative rights
• run the following command:

Get-NetConnectionProfile

it will show one or more of the following:

Name : my_wifi
InterfaceAlias : Wi-Fi
InterfaceIndex : 7
NetworkCategory : Private
IPv4Connectivity : Internet
IPv6Connectivity : LocalNetwork

• choose the connection to update
• then run the following command to set the desired category:

Set-NetConnectionProfile -interfaceindex <interface_index> -networkcategory <private/public>