On our Dell laptop we got a connect Event ID of 121 and disconnect of 83 with the Source name of “yukonw7”, yours will likely be different though. Make a note of the name in the Source column and the Event ID for the connect and disconnect events you found. Press F5 to refresh the window and click on the newest events, hopefully you will find a “Port is up”, “link up” or similar description in the lower General tab to indicate the LAN has connected, and another one when the LAN was disconnected.ģ. Disconnect and reconnect your Ethernet cable a few times to generate some events.
When Event Viewer is open, go to Windows Logs -> System.Ģ. Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer.
This does not work on Windows XP because it doesn’t have the option to trigger a task when a specific event is logged.ġ. With this information you can then create tasks to disable or re-enable the Wifi adapter depending on the connection status of the wired connection. Using this method relies on your computer’s LAN adapter sending an event to the Windows Event Viewer when it disconnects and reconnects.
