What are the wireless network profiles? Why do you need to back up wireless network profiles? And how to do that? This post on the MiniTool Website will give you a detailed guide for further understanding and targeted methods. Let’s see how to do that.
Have you ever thought about why your network connection can work so smoothly and quickly? That owes to your wireless network profiles.
Wireless network profiles, or Wi-Fi profiles, are sorts of network settings that help you to easily connect to Wi-Fi networks and regularly use your computer on multiple networks without the need to enter the details each time you want to get online.
In this way, it is quite important for some users to back up and restore wireless network profiles.
Back up Wireless Network Profiles
How to back up wireless network profiles? You can export wireless network profiles by using Command Prompt. Here is the way.
Step 1: Type cmd in Search and choose to run Command Prompt as an administrator.
Step 2: You need to check the profile name you want to back up. If you have known it, you can skip this move; if not, please type this command and press Enter.
netsh wlan show profiles
Step 3: When you get the name, you can export Wi-Fi profiles by executing this command. Note that you should change the [folder path] to the location you want to save the profiles.
netsh wlan export profile key=clear folder=[folder path]
Step 4: If you just want to save a specific profile, you can perform this command.
netsh wlan export profile [profile name] key=clear folder=[folder path]
Still, you need to replace the [profile name] and [folder path] with the real ones. When you finish those steps, you can see those files are saved as .xml files in the designated location.
Back up a Profile for a Specific Network Interface
Some users may use different network interfaces with different profiles, like Wi-Fi and Ethernet. This part will teach you how to back up a profile for a specific interface by using Command Prompt.
Step 1: To check if you have any available wireless interface on the system, you can run this command.
netsh wlan show interfaces
Step 2: Type this command and press Enter to execute it. Change [folder path] to the saving location.
netsh wlan export profile interface=wifi key=clear folder=[folder path]
Restore Wireless Network Profiles
When you have backed up the profiles, you can restore them whenever you want. To restore the wireless network profiles, you can do as follows.
Open Command Prompt with admin rights and execute this command.
netsh wlan add profile user=current filename=[folder path\filename.xml]
Please replace [folder path\filename.xml] with the location and the name of the .xml file, for example, the command should be like netsh wlan add profile user=current filename=C:\Users\bj\Desktop\WiFi-hb52954_YGT.xml.
Then you can check if the profile has been restored by executing the netsh wlan show profiles command.
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Bottom Line:
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