I never ever used the Windows Airplane mode. Basically, as a developer, I hardly ever thought of being disconnected. Then one fine day I wanted to try it, so enabled it and was still able to browse and carry on with much of my “network” related activities as the built-in Windows “Airplane” mode only deals with “wireless” devices. Your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections are toggled when you enable/disable the mode, leaves alone the physical connections, like ethernet. I thought of something more & here is a home grown true “Airplane” mode enabler ;). Copy the code to a PowerShell script file & run it as administrator. Don’t be too excited and try it from a remote connection.

# Get all network adapters that are enabled
$enabledAdapters = Get-NetAdapter | Where-Object { $_.Status -eq "Up" }
# Count the number of enabled adapters
$enabledAdapterCount = $enabledAdapters.Count
# Output the result
<#
$wshell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
$Output = $wshell.Popup("Number of enabled network adapters: $enabledAdapterCount", 0, "Active Adapters", 64)
#>



if ($enabledAdapterCount -gt 0) { 
    
    $wshell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
    $Output = $wshell.Popup("Proceeding will disable all network adapters, Are you sure?", 0, "Number of Active Adapters: $enabledAdapterCount", 4 + 32)
    if ($Output -eq 6) { Disable-NetAdapter -Name "*" -Confirm:$false }
}
else { 
    
    $wshell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
    $Output = $wshell.Popup("Proceeding will enable all network adapters, Are you sure?", 0, "Number of Active Adapters: $enabledAdapterCount", 4 + 32)
    if ($Output -eq 6) { Enable-NetAdapter -Name "*" -Confirm:$false  }
    }

Create a shortcut to “powershell.exe” on your desktop. Modify it like below image.

The same script can enable or disable all adapters based on their current status. You cannot execute this script as a normal user.