{"id":10600,"date":"2017-11-21T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2022-05-16T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T02:15:55","slug":"delete-wireless-network-profiles-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/delete-wireless-network-profiles-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Wireless Network Profiles in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I clear out all old Wi-Fi profiles on Windows 7? Look for a way to remove wireless networks that no longer worked because their passwords have been changed? In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you different ways to delete wireless network profiles in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ 8 \/ 7, using System Tray, Command Prompt or Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Delete Wireless Network Profile Using System Tray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click the wireless network icon in the system tray from the bottom-right corner, and you&#8217;ll see a list of wireless networks. Right-click on the network you want to delete, and then select <strong>Forget<\/strong> from the pop-up menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/forgot-wireless-network.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10605\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now the system will forget the selected network, and it not be able to connect to that Wi-Fi network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Delete Wireless Network Profile Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-command-prompt-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a> and run the following command to get the list of all wireless network profiles stored on your local PC:<br \/>\n<code>netsh wlan show profiles<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/list-wireless-network-profiles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Find the name of the wireless network profile you want to delete, then type the following command to remove it:<br \/>\n<code>netsh wlan delete profile name=\"profile name\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/delete-wireless-network-profile.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10607\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to remove all the wireless network profiles, simply type:<br \/>\n<code>netsh wlan delete profile name=*<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 3: Delete Wireless Network Profile Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open the Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to the following key:<br \/>\n<code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\NetworkList\\Profiles<\/code>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click each subkey under <strong>Profiles<\/strong>, and check the <strong>ProfileName<\/strong> value on the right to see if that is the wireless network connection you want to remove. Once you find the subkey, right-click on it and select <strong>Delete<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wireless-network-profile-list.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"406\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10608\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Now, your selected network profile is deleted successfully.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I clear out all old Wi-Fi profiles on Windows 7? Look for a way to remove wireless networks that no longer worked because their passwords have been changed? In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you different ways to delete wireless network profiles in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ 8 \/ 7, using System Tray, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,4713,3,39],"tags":[3613,3616,3614,3615],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-delete-wireless-network-windows-10","tag-forget-wifi-network-on-windows-10","tag-forget-wireless-network-windows-10","tag-remove-wireless-network-windows-registry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18157,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/18157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}