Delete a wireless profile in Windows 8

Sometimes you're in the need to manually delete a wireless network profile, for example when your settings have changed and you can no longer connect to the wireless network.

Apparently, Windows 8 has removed this functionality from the GUI.

You have the following options left:

• NETSH command

C:\Users\levente.rog> netsh wlan delete profile name="Chihuahua"

Profile "Chihuahua" is deleted from interface "Wi-Fi".

As a side-note, it's worth exploring the other options of netsh wlan.

• 3rd Party Tool

WiFi Profile Manager 8 is a nice little tool written by Lee Whittington. Nice GUI, lightweight and easy to use. Get the tool from here.

• Registry

Find the profile under the following registry path and delete the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles

• Windows Explorer

Navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces to find and delete your profile (it's an xml file).

The hack explorer.exe shell:::{1fa9085f-25a2-489b-85d4-86326eedcd87} no longer seems to work, at least with build 6.2.9200.