How can I configure my network adapter after installing VS with the WP8 SDK?

Question

This is a fresh Windows installation with VS 2013 Update 2 installed. During installation I ticked the checkbox to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK. That caused the installation of a Hyper-V VM, which seems to have taken over my network connections.

This is what I have when the network cable is plugged in:

• Ethernet
  Enabled
  Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

• vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)
  Unidentified network

• vEthernet (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Virtual Switch)
  Network

This is what I have when the network cable is unplugged, changes in bold:

• Ethernet
  Network cable unplugged
  Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

• vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)
  Unidentified network

• vEthernet (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Virtual Switch)
  Network cable unplugged

Now the problem is I want to change the DNS settings of my real network adapter. I think it's the first one, unless the real one is somehow hidden. In its properties, everything but Hyper-V Virtual Switch is unchecked.

How can I change the settings I want now? Do I need to go through Hyper-V Manager?

Answer 1

I found an explanation of what happens on Server Fault: Hyper-V extensible virtual switch disables network

The key line:

the physical NIC gets bound with the Microsoft Virtual Network Switch Protocol (which is the virtual switch driver)

That prompted me to try and change the settings of the vEthernet (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Virtual Switch) adapter (third one in the question). I changed the DNS servers for IPv4 and IPv6 and it works. My browser uses the DNS servers I've chosen and nslookup also uses them.

C:\Users\Stijn>nslookup superuser.com
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  2001:4860:4860::8888

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    superuser.com
Address:  198.252.206.140