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My wife has been given a new works windows 10 laptop, and no matter the pleading, she is not allowed to keep the old Apple laptop, which she loves and knows how to work.
The old Apple laptop has network locations settings on it, which seems really intuitive. It has a 'work' network location which has all the proxies and internal settings for her work and client sensitive application access, and a 'home' location for out of hours basic internet / mail use. I can easily edit each one, and its clear which one I'm editing.
Is there a similar sort of thing for Windows 10? Where I can set 'home' and 'work' profile and the wife can select which one she wants ( in the same way as OSX ?)
It appears to have come setup with DirectAccess enabled, and a whole ream of proxy settings etc etc.
I'd like to save all that into a 'work' profile, and create a simple 'home' profile for our own wifi at the house ( no proxies etc etc ). And then have her simply select which she wants depending on where she is at the time ( like in OSX ! )
I've tried connecting the new windows 10 laptop to our wifi as it is, but whilst it connects to the router, it doesn't see the internet as a whole. I've had a look online, and i'm getting a bit confused.
Any help / pointers / explainations would be greatly appreciated. I don't really want to mess up the existing setup.
Thanks !
There isn't I'm afraid.
Try using firefox as the browser at home, it doesn't pick up the Windows cert store and you can turn off the proxy settings even if they are corporate set.
I'll semi - answer my own question. I changed the network from public to private ... and its now seeing the internet. Hopefully that's not gubbed it. But I still cant see a means to select where you are like OSX. ( but I see from above, that's not possible ).
not really sure what you are trying to do to be honest.
w10, click the wifi icon in the taskbar bottom left, and it'll show you all the available wifi signals you can connect to.
seosamh77,
in OSX, you can generate multiple network location settings and name them individually. For each of those location settings, you can specify which network adapters are enabled ( i.e. you can disable wifi, but enable Ethernet and vice versa etc etc ) along with DCHP and other typical settings. That way, when you go between locations which need different completely different network settings, you just select which location you want from the drop down Apple menu, and all the settings change there and then. Its really simple.
I was looking for the same thing in Windows 10. Have a profile for each location, which the wife can select depending on where she is.
Ah right think I know what you mean. Don't think they've put that stuff in the new settings panel yet will still be in the old control panel.
click start menu > type control panel > Network and sharing centre
From there you can set up a new connection.
Once set up go back in and then you can go into change adapter settings and fiddle with the settings in there. Or just enable or disable connections.
at a guess, that's what you be looking for?
never really had to do much with internet settings bar connect to wifi or plugging in an ethernet cable or setting up tunnelbear, which is also automatic.. either usually connects without much hassle on mac or pc ime.
No there aren't network locations you can select like that in Windows - in Windows you have to just set it up so it automatically selects different settings when it connects to a different network without allowing you to put in any effort 😉 (I'm actually interested by the comment in the OP - I once spent ages trying to get a Mac to work like Windows and do it automatically before giving up and just setting up network locations the user had to select manually - I always assumed I'd missed something!)
Look up .pac files - it involves writing a simple script, but it's only a handful of lines required. Assuming it's the proxy settings you're most interested in changing depending on what network you're connecting to - but then that's normally what requires you to change things for different networks.
I'm slightly struggling to understand what the ask here is because what it sounded like was "OSX is really crap at handling different networks but I want to downgrade Windows network handling to make it work the same way". I could be misreading it though!
My work Lenovo came with a network app on it (called Access Connections) that sounds like it could probably do something similar to OSX, but I've never felt the need.
The old Apple laptop has network locations settings on it, which seems really intuitive. It has a ‘work’ network location which has all the proxies and internal settings for her work and client sensitive application access, and a ‘home’ location for out of hours basic internet / mail use.
Proxy settings are automatically configured. I don't think there's a way to disable wifi when you're on a different site automatically, but you can simply turn off wifi using the function button usually.
The network/printer/visibility options are set when you connect to a network for the first time - it pops up and asks you 'Is this network public, work or home?' and changes settings according to what you probably want. You can edit them later if you need. Those sharing settings are then tied to that actual network so they change whenever you connect to work or your home wifi or whatever.
Thanks all, Just have to learn the window way I think!
I've set the laptop to a home network when attached to the wifi at the house and it seems to now be working properly, and I'll see whether I get any complaints about when she uses it at work !
Thanks again.
I’ve set the laptop to a home network when attached to the wifi at the house and it seems to now be working properly
related:
every now and then I get one or other of our home PCs reverting to seeing my network as public, meaning they fail to connect to the internet (not sure if it's after big updates or what). ALways used to take me ages to reset, as the usual advice relating to the homegroup troubleshooter didn't seem to work
I found via google that you can (maybe) make it stop doing this by altering a setting in the local security policy (found by typing secpol into the cortana/search box). We'll see