The only minor caveat is you may see a single adapter constantly and briefly appearing and disappearing under Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections and your device manager window will constantly refresh each time it attempts to install adapters. You must disable DNSCache with regedit, here:Ĭomputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache Then point acrylic to your router IP, or preferred DNS server, and set all your adapters DNS settings to 127.0.0.1. Be sure to comb through Acrylics configuration with a fine toothed comb because initially your default DNS provider will automatically be set to google or cloudflare. One way to disable these adapters literally ONCE AND FOR ALL is to disable DNScache aka Dns Client service and use a third-party DNS service such as Acrylic, or SimpleDNSCrypt.
Even automating with Nvspbind all settings revert on reboot. Many of us don't want to disable Hyper-V security, and nothing else here worked for me on Windows 10 2004, everything is replaced on reboot, even netbios settings which increase attack surface, and its a pain to configure potentially hundreds of adapters every single time. My solution works, even with Hyper-V enabled.
