Display / Export Wlan Profiles in Windows 7/8/10/11

To display all wireless profiles on your windows start a dos-prompt an type the following command:

netsh wlan show profile

To export/backup all profiles:

create a backup folder

md c:\profiles

netsh wlan export profile folder=c:profiles

(This will export all profiles in separate .xml files)

To export specific profiles add name=”profilename”

netsh wlan export profile name=”profilename” folder=c:\profiles

To export the keys in clear text add key=clear

netsh wlan export profile folder=c:\profiles key=clear

To import the xml file to another system (works only if exported with key=clear)

netsh wlan add profile filename=”c:\profilesprofilename.xml’