While helping a Lounge member in this thread, I wanted to lookup the Manage Wireless Profile tool that had been available in previous versions of Windows. I found that it is no longer supported in Windows 8. That’s a shame because for a mobile worker it is sometimes useful to be able to manage the networks on the go.
In the CP and RP versions of Win8, there were a couple of work-arounds published that included making a call to explorer.exe shell:::{1fa9085f-25a2-489b-85d4-86326eedcd87}, but this no longer works in the production release – specifically in the RTM.
So, after a bit of Googling around I found a nice little 3rd party app here. It lists all stored wifi profiles and allows you to manage them, setting priorities, viewing the key, checking wifi encryption, enabling, disabling, exporting etc.
The existing Metro Connect to a Network App only lists and manages those networks it can currently see, not those that have been used previously and remembered. This 3rd party app could be a useful little extra for mobile techies as well as those who need to swap around or otherwise manage their wifi networks.
As with all 3rd party tools, use at your own risk…but it appears clean to me.
