{"id":19348,"date":"2023-01-15T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=19348"},"modified":"2023-01-15T02:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:24:45","slug":"backup-or-transfer-wifi-profiles-and-passwords-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/backup-or-transfer-wifi-profiles-and-passwords-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Backup or Transfer Wi-Fi Profiles and Passwords in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each time you connect to a new Wi-Fi network, Windows will create a wireless profile that contains the SSID, security key (password) and other related information. In this tutorial we’ll show you a simple way to backup or transfer Wi-Fi profiles and passwords, when you need to reinstall Windows 11 or import Wi-Fi profiles to another computer.<\/p>\n

How to Backup or Transfer Wi-Fi Profiles and Passwords in Windows 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click the Windows<\/strong> button in the taskbar and choose “Terminal (Admin)<\/strong>“.\n

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  2. Type the following command and press Enter to export all wireless profiles on your system. Remember to replace “D:\\wifi_backup<\/code>” with an existing folder location where you want to store the backup.\n

    netsh wlan export profile key=clear folder=\"D:\\wifi_backup\"<\/code><\/p>\n

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  3. The above command will create a separate .XML file for each wireless profile. If you open any XML file using your Web browser, you can see that the Wi-Fi password is displayed in clear text within the keyMaterial<\/strong> tags.\n

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  4. Now, you can transfer the profiles you’ve already backed up into USB or another computer. When you need to import a wireless profile, run this command.
    \nnetsh wlan add profile filename=\"full_path_of_xml_file\"<\/code><\/p>\n

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    \tReplace “full_path_of_xml_file<\/code>” with the path of the XML file associated with the Wi-Fi network you want to restore.<\/li>\n

  5. Use the same method to import every wireless profile you want to connect to. Once you complete the above steps, your computer should be able to connect to the Wi-Fi without asking for a password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Each time you connect to a new Wi-Fi network, Windows will create a wireless profile that contains the SSID, security key (password) and other related information. In this tutorial we’ll show you a simple way to backup or transfer Wi-Fi profiles and passwords, when you need to reinstall Windows 11 or import Wi-Fi profiles to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[5083,5084,5085],"class_list":["post-19348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-backup-wifi-password-windows-11","tag-export-wifi-profile-windows-11","tag-transfer-wifi-profile-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19348","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=19348"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19361,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19348\/revisions\/19361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}