Save and Restore Wi-Fi settings in Windows (10, 8.1, 7)!
The solution is extremely easy to save and restore the Wi-Fi settings in Windows (10, 8.1, 7)!
Restoring the Wi-Fi settings after reinstalling the Windows operating system is not difficult, but you can make this process even easier.
The configuration data for wireless networks is also no exception, a complete reinstallation of Windows causes us to lose all stored settings that were on the C:\ drive or on the windows system partition.
Save the Wi-Fi / WiFi settings!
Start the cmd.exe command prompt in Administrator mode or an Administrator account.
Use the export command D:\MyWlan is in this case the folder in which the profiles are saved:
netsh wlan export profile folder=D:\MyWlan
(Image-1) Save and Restore Wi-Fi settings on Windows!
If you have multiple profiles on your Windows computer, the "netsh wlan" export profile command creates several files, one for each wlan profile. If you only want to save individual profiles.
Save individual WiFi profiles!
Issue the command netsh wlan show profiles
The system then displays a list of available profiles.
Now use the following command to save it to a file:
Import Command for all users on the Windows machine:
netsh wlan add profile filename="D: \MyWlan\My-WiFi-Name.xml "user = all
You can restore the wireless network settings from a previously created backup. It is very simple and the procedure described here works in Windows 10, 8.1 and all older Windows operating systems.
How can I run the Windows Command Prompt? The fastest way to run or start the command prompt in every Windows System, is via RUN-Dialog in Windows. Please start via Keyboard-Shortcut [Windows-Logo+R]
