System Enable or Disable Device Portal in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Device Portal in Windows 11.

Windows Device Portal (WDP) is a device management and debugging tool that lets you configure and manage device settings and view diagnostic information from your PC over HTTP from a web browser.

You can use the WDP for the following:

• Manage device settings (similar to the Windows Settings app)
• See and manipulate a list of running processes
• Install, delete, launch, and terminate apps
• Change Wi-Fi profiles, view signal strength, and see ipconfig details
• View live graphs of CPU, memory, I/O, network, and GPU usage
• Collect process dumps
• Collect ETW traces
• Manipulate the isolated storage of sideloaded apps

Once WDP is enabled, you will see web links at the bottom of the section. Take note of the port number appended to the end of the listed URLs: this number is randomly generated when WDP is enabled but should remain consistent between reboots of the desktop.

These links offer two ways to connect to WDP: over the local network (including VPN) or through the local host.

References:

You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable Device Portal.

Device Portal requires Developer Mode to be turned on.

EXAMPLE: Connected to Windows Device Portal




Here's How:

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Privacy & security on the left side, and click/tap on For developers on the right side. (see screenshot below)

Starting with Windows 11 version 22H2 KB5030310 Build 22621.2361, For developers is now in Settings > System.

3 Do step 4 (on) or step 5 (off) below for what you want.

This is the default setting.

That's it,
Shawn Brink