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So in Linux you need to manually run some commands or write config files to connect to the network. Before these steps you can use the system perfectly fine without a connection. Is something like this possible on Windows 10? Currently, even if I haven't login yet I see a bunch of packets running somewhere. That is: is it possible to use Windows offline without disabling a network adapter or intentionally misconfiguring your connection?

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To disable the Ethernet, you need to disable the Ethernet network adapter.

That is done in Control Panel > Network Connections, by right-click on the adapter and selecting "Disable".

Undoing is by similarly selecting "Enable".

For disabling automatically on shutdown, use the following references to create a shutdown event handler which will run a batch script to disable the network adapter:

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