Script to Disable WiFi Device
An old script to share :-) Below is an example script that was once used to disable WiFi devices on desktop computers attached to the LAN, but that came with a built-in and enabled WiFi device.
'==========================================================================
' NAME: DisableWifi
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley, Archstone
' COMMENT: Determines if a network adapter device is wireless/wifi and then
' executes a devcon command to disable the device. This should only target
' Vostro desktops where there is wireless adapter
' VERSION HISTORY:
' 1.0 (05/13/2011) - Initial Script
' 2.0 (05/25/2011) - Added logging into registry for future inventory
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit
Const ForAppending = 8
Dim oWMI, oShell, colItems, oFSO, oFile
Set oShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
Set oWMI = GetObject ("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = oWMI.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_PnPEntity where name like '%wireless%' or name like '%wifi %'")
'Start logging
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Windows\Temp\DisableWifi.log", ForAppending, True)
oFile.WriteLine "Disable wireless network adapter"
oFile.WriteLine " => Started (" & Date & " " & Time & ")"
' If count=0 of the collection, then no wireless devices found
If colItems.count=0 Then
oFile.WriteLine " => WARNING: Wireless network adapter not found!"
Else
Dim oItem, sDeviceType
oFSO.CopyFile oFSO.GetFile(Wscript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder & "\devcon\i386\devcon.exe ", "C:\Windows\Temp\devcon.exe"
' Parse the collection of wireless devices to be disabled
For Each oItem In colItems
sDeviceType = UCase(Left(oItem.DeviceID, 3))
If sDeviceType = "PCI" Then
oShell.Run "C:\Windows\Temp\devcon.exe disable ""@" & oItem.deviceID & ""
oFile.WriteLine " => Disabled " & oItem.Name
oFile.WriteLine " Device ID: " & oItem.DeviceID
End If
Next
End If
' End
oFile.WriteLine " => Completed (" & Date & " " & Time & ")"
WScript.Quit (oFile.Close)
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