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Hello Youtube. Today I'm going to show you how to delete wireless profiles. In my case
I've accumulated quite a few wireless profiles because I had a hidden wireless network that
I was connecting to, and in doing so you have to manually add the connection each time,
and when you do that it just creates a copy of the network with the number 2 on the end,
then the number 2 3, and then the number 2 3 4, and so on and so forth. The end result
is that I have all of these Gohan networks. You might also have something similar or maybe
you just want to delete a wireless network that you connected to before and you don't
want your computer to automatically try and connect to it, say maybe an AT&T Wi-Fi or
a public Wi-Fi, anything along those lines that you may have accidentally checked that
connect automatically box. In Windows 8 there is no graphical way to do this, it all has
to be on the command line. Don't let that scare you, I'm going to walk you through it
step by step. I would also recommend that if you do have a wireless network of your
own, that you no longer hide the network name. That may have at one time been considered
a security feature, but no longer is that the case. There is an article on Microsoft
that I'll link to in the description that talks about exactly why that is no longer
considered a security feature, and it's really just going to cause yourself more trouble
and doesn't prevent a hacker from getting on at all. Check out that link if you don't
believe me, but I definitely recommend that you show your network name, it's going to
make things a lot easier for yourself. So let's get started! Oh, I'm also going to post
the code for this that we'll be typing in the description as well. So let's begin. In
the bottom left, if you're on 8.1 you're going to click on the Start button, if you're on
Windows 8 you're going to want to move your mouse into the very bottom left corner until
the little Start button appears, and then right click on that. We're going to go Command
Prompt (Admin). We're going to say yes to this little window that pops up here. We're
going to be using the netsh command to do this, and let's take a look at those profiles
one more time. I'm going to do netsh wlan, which is wireless local area network, show
profiles. So here they are again, as you can see there are a bunch of Gohan connections
here that I'm going to get rid of. I'm also going to get rid of these extra myton connections.
The way we're going to do that is with the netsh command wlan, delete profile, going
to put this in quotes, and it's going to be Gohan space star, end quote. The reason I
put a star after Gohan is that's considered a wild card. What that means is not only will
it remove Gohan 2, but it will remove Gohan 3, 4, anything that could possibly match here,
including multiple characters will be matched for this. So it's going to delete any Gohan
profile. We'll go ahead and hit enter, and there it goes. It also lists the interface,
if you have multiple Wi-Fi devices it might list more than what you see here, but there
you go, all of those profiles have been deleted. Let's do that one more time for the myton.
I'm just going to hit up on my keyboard and change Gohan to myton, and there they go.
Just to prove that they are really gone, I'll show profiles one more time. There they are.
As you can see, the original Gohan network is still there, because I put the space and
then the wild card, so that means any Gohan network that included a space and anything
after that, in this case numbers. The original network was not deleted, if I hadn't put that
space in there and had just done Gohan star, it would have deleted the original network
as well, so keep that in mind. It's not that big of a deal, you could always reconnect
to the network again and save it back to your list of profiles here, but that is what I
wanted to do and that's what happened. If you have any questions I'll do my best to
answer them in the comments, and also leave any suggestions for my next video. I'm going
to try and do a series here of how to videos on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, I can also do Windows
7, I can actually go all the way back to Windows 2000 if you really need to know how to do
something on Windows 2000, if there is enough demand for any older version of Windows I
can also make a dedicated video explaining how to do that. Thanks for watching, and I'll
see you next time.