I’m feeling a bit … lost. For some reason on one particular machine I don’t seem to be able to rename any Network Interface on Windows 11:
I’ve just tried it on another couple of machines and it’s worked fine – and I’ve obviously managed to rename some previously! So, anyone any idea what’s going on here? I’m sure we can do this with PowerShell though, so let’s do that.
Fire up PowerShell as an Administrator and use the following command to get a list of your adapters:
Get-NetAdapter
You can see my output above. Next, rename the adapter using the following command:
Rename-NetAdapter -Name “Ethernet 7” -NewName “HyperV_10Gbpe“
…obviously use the name of the interface you want to change, and what you want to change it to. Nothing appears to happen, but if you run the get-netadapter again you should see your changes:
If anyone knows why I’ve lost the ability to do this in the GUI I’m all ears – I’ve tried removing all the HyperV vSwitch configuration but that didn’t seem to make any difference.
No big deal of course, I’m just curious.
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