Wi-Fi and Wireless networks are common in thiscomputer age of 2014.
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft has removed the ability to right-click wireless networks and forget them.
How to Delete, Prioritize and Edit Wireless web connection Profile in Windows 7?
Its always better to remove unnecessary wireless web connection profiles and re-arranging the working ones.
The symptoms of not connecting problems are like unable to connect to the wireless internet after changing the options.
Also trying to remove multiple wireless connection profiles can sometimes create problems.
The higher the connection profile listed in the list, it will have higher priority.
But Im not sure, how this priority is assigned.
How to Manage Wireless connection Profiles in Windows 8?
How PRIORITY of Internet Connections is determined in Windows?
Before we go ahead and talk about this issue, its important onhow Windows determines connection priority.
As you have observed from your connection connections, Windows connects to the Internet in this order.
Mobile broadband
Theconnection prioritycomes in the case of Wi-Fi and Mobile broadband.
Mobile broadband networks are given preference over Wi-Fi, for a particular session in Windows 8.
How to Change the PRIORITY of Networks in Windows 8?
Suppose there are two wireless networks NET1 and NET2 in a location which are in the same range.
Now if you manually choose NET2 as the internet connection in succeeding times, then NET2 takes precedence.
you’re able to do the vice-versa to make NET1 the top priority again.
This will also remove the tag Connect Automaticallytag from that internet profile.
How to edit web link Profile tweaks in Windows 8?
it’s possible for you to do this using the System tray or the Charms bar.
Find the wireless-data pipe icon and from it, find the list of available networks.
Locate the networks name.
(Security Set Identifier SSID).
Right-click or press and hold on it.
Click or tapView Connection Properties.
How to Remove web connection Profiles in Windows 8?
There are several reasons, why you want to do this?
How to Forget Wireless web connection Profile in Windows 8.1?
With thenew Update 1 release, somethings have changed in Windows 8.1.
Surprisingly, you cannot make the same changes to wireless connection profiles as you did in Windows 8.
There is no contextual-menu to display, just like in the above screenshots.
In theNetworkspane, choose the internet you want removed and pressConnect.
The third method is using the command-line way and more of a non-interface way.
you oughta bang out a few commands to make this work.
Open anelevated command promptand jot down the following.
netsh wlan show profiles.
This will show all the web link profiles on your laptop or PC.
The list can be long, if you have used your setup for a long time.
Now to virtually remove or forget a profile, key in the following command.
netsh wlan delete profile name=“swisscom”
Here swisscom is the profile name.
so that forget or delete all the profile names, the following command can be used.
netsh wlan delete profile name=* i=*
There are some other commands which are useful in this scenario.
But with each new OS, there are new problems with the learning curve and also new trouble-shooting methods.
Its finally your own trial-and-error that will fix the problem.
