http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspxAwhile ago someone asked me about how to make their laptop prefer their wired internet connection versus their wireless when both are connected to the internet. The short answer is that Windows (Vista, 7, 2008, and I’m pretty sure XP and 2003 does asen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3559479Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:20:13 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3559479Ratan Sharma<p>It&#39;s Working for me in windows 2003. Thanks .........</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3559479" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3556890Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:54:29 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3556890ucc8765<p>ADCE 2013 from Synergix ( www.synergix.com ). &nbsp;Not only does it set Wired as preferred but will also release the IP address assigned to Wifi before it disconnects from WiFi. &nbsp;Works on xp, 7 ... not yet sure about 8.0 &nbsp;So you don&#39;t have computers taking up two IP address in the DHCP pool and interestingly enough it will also remove the DNS record for the WiFi connection. &nbsp;Neat !</p> <p>We are testing their beta version ( 2013 ) and can provide more comments in few days.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3556890" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3474334Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:48:27 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3474334Sanjay Devarajan<p>It kinda worked for me in Win XP. Thanks</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3474334" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3456316Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:48:52 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3456316Renjith<p>This is not true.windows 7 will not take the metric changed manually on tcp/ip properties.this is really</p> <p>big failure of windows 7 in network connections. XP was good as when we docks it automatically switch over from wireless to wired.can anyone truly suggest switch over in windows 7?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3456316" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3393843Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:08:04 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3393843Quantum<p>Thank you very much for this. I wanted my wireless connection to be preferred to the wired one (wired is only to accept external connections) and it worked wonderfully.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3393843" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3345547Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:59:28 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3345547Ulf<p>This is not true, why do you think a question of how to force Win 7 to prefer wired over wireless connections gives a million answers on Google? </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3345547" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections.aspx#3227951Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:17:31 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3227951Topics about Microsoft &raquo; Windows Prefers Wired Connections<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://microsoft.linkedz.info/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections/">http://microsoft.linkedz.info/2009/04/19/windows-prefers-wired-connections/</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3227951" width="1" height="1">