Windows Network Location Dialog

Windows uses Network Location Awareness service to show network location dialog when detected network changed, and it will write network list in registry under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles

Each profile has a value named Category which 0 means Public, 1 means Home and 2 means Work. Windows also saves gateway MAC address, DNS suffix of the profiles under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures

 

Network location dialog can be disabled per computer by creating following registry key (no value or sub key)

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\NewNetworkWindowOff

or can be disabled per user by add a 32-bit DWORD value named Show with value 0 at

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Network\NwCategoryWizard