Restart Windows Network

[Randy Walker]

Free to do with as you like:

NOTE: You MUST enable "Ask administrator permission in compiler options!!!

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RunProgram("netsh"," int ip reset","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
RunProgram("netsh"," winsock reset","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
RunProgram("ipconfig"," /release","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
RunProgram("ipconfig"," /renew","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
RunProgram("ipconfig"," /flushdns","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
;ipconfig /registerdns","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
;NETSH winsock reset catalog","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
RunProgram("NETSH"," int ipv4 reset reset.log","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
RunProgram("NETSH"," int ipv6 reset reset.log","",#PB_Program_Wait)
Delay(1000)
MessageRequester("All restarted","please try your network again")

My source for those commands:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 7f0445032a
Tested on my Win 11 and Win 7 machines - all good.
I named my compiled copy: RestartNetwork.exe

[Quin]

Nice, thanks for sharing!
Might want to remove the delay calls around those commented out programs though, so it runs slightly faster

[Randy Walker]

Nice, thanks for sharing!
Might want to remove the delay calls around those commented out programs though, so it runs slightly faster

Yeah, I knew it would but wanted to leave room for the changes to take effect.
Could have also used the Hide option in RunProgram.

[Axolotl]

I guess, that's one of the big advantages of open source everyone (programmers) can customize it to their liking .....
Thanks for sharing.

[Randy Walker]

I guess, that's one of the big advantages of open source everyone (programmers) can customize it to their liking .....
Thanks for sharing.

I *never* claimed to be a programmer.

[Quin]

I *never* claimed to be a programmer.

Sorry to go slightly off topic here, but why do you so often say this? I'm asking out of true curiosity, to me it sounds like you've developed a pretty large piece of software that does what it needs to do well, and it has done so for years and years. What about that makes you not a programmer? You don't have to be an assembly wizard or able to type at 150 WPM or whatever else to be a programmer.

[Randy Walker]

I *never* claimed to be a programmer.

Sorry to go slightly off topic here, but why do you so often say this?.

Actually I don't say it so often -- its in my signature in my PB forum membership profile, so it just happens to be at the bottom of all my posts.
In my mind a programmer is a professional -- someone who gets paid for their skills. None of that fits my profile. I am a hacker and sometimes mange to hack out something useful, but that doesn't make me a professional. That big program you referred to is the result of about 30 years of hacking to get the needed results. I think if I qualified as a professional, I would be able to figure out two major issues that have presented themselves over the last year or so. I just don't know the cause of the problems I have with my code. i can only attribute them to changes in the compilers. On several recommendations I have changed all my variable.l to variable.i but had no affect. If I were a programmer, my code would not be such a convoluted chain of incomprehensible gyrations i can't begin to sort out now.

Yes I'm a hacker according to the real definition:

hacker
A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the
internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in
particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context,
where "cracker" would be the correct term. See also: cracker.

Ref: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1392.html
Everyone in this forum is a hacker.

More accurately Nerium Dictionary defines hacker as:

1: one that hacks

Ref: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker
I really hate that the term has been so badly abused.

[Quin]

Likewise Randhy, I like to call myself a hacker in the oldest and best sense of the word. Sure, I did some things I probably shouldn't have with my computer knowledge when I was too young to understand how to use it properly, but I don't enjoy hacking government computers, I just enjoy ripping apart a piece of software and trying to figure out how its binary formats work or whatever. That's what makes hacking fun to me

[Randy Walker]

Likewise Randy, I like to call myself a hacker in the oldest and best sense of the word. Sure, I did some things I probably shouldn't have with my computer knowledge when I was too young to understand how to use it properly

Yeah, not cool. I've always felt crackers should be hung on the street corner. Them and creators of anti-virus. I just don't think too highly of those who have no respect for other's property. I never tried to crack anything. I'm glad you wised up. BTW I see you are in Colorado. Anywhere near South Park, by chance?