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Today from our space Welcome to Windows 8, we bring you an excellent guide to locate, encrypt and delete Wifi profiles with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

Thanks to the versatility of Windows 8, we can choose between two different options to configure our Wifi. We can use the visual mode, intuitive, easy to use and very simple, or the command modefor slightly more advanced users.

Visual mode

Thanks to the Windows 8 operating system, accessing the configuration of our Wi-Fi networks to be able to edit, delete or simply access statistics is very simple. First of all we are going to explain how to delete Wifi profiles from visual mode.

1. From Windows 8, we access the bar charm situating ourselves with the cursor of our mouse in the upper right or lower right corner and click on the button Settings.

   

2. Six icons will appear, the first of which represents the Wi-Fi networks. If we are not connected to any network, we can read Unidentified network or Available, without However, if we are connected, the name of the network we are on will appear. The next step that we must carry out is to click with the left button of our mouse.

   

3. After clicking on it, we can see a list with all the Wifi networks within our range.

   

4. To delete a Wi-Fi profile, right-click on it and a menu will be displayed with different options, in which we will choose Forget this network . In this way, we will eliminate the Wifi profile, which we can add again at any other time.

   

And it's as simple as being able to delete a Wi-Fi network previously saved on our computer. Windows 8 always offers the greatest advantages so that the user can carry out all possible procedures without complications.

Command mode

For expert users who do not want to use the visual menus and want to perform this operation through commands, we must perform the following steps:

1. First, we open the command prompt. To do this, press the key sequence Windows + Q, in this way, the search box will be displayed where we will write CMDand click with the left mouse button on the Command Prompt:.

   

2. A black window will open on the desktop in which we are allowed to write. To see the list of Wi-Fi networks we will write netsh wlan show profile and press Enter

   

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3. In our case it shows us two networks, if we want to delete one of them, for example the one named Angel Wifi>netsh wlan delete profile Angel Wifi and press Enter. When it is deleted correctly, the following message appears:"

   

4. We can repeat this operation with all the profiles we want to delete

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Thanks to the Command Prompt window,we can also delete the Wi-Fi profiles we want with great agility, avoiding the use of the engine Windows graphic for the most geeks."

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