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# Manage WiFi on Windows 8.1
- URL: https://blog.lsonline.fr/2019/03/07/manage-wifi-on-windows-8/
- Published: 2019-03-07T09:59:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-27T18:30:03.000Z
- Description: This post will explain you how to connect your windows 8.1 laptop to a WPA/TKIP Enterprise wireless network and how to export the profile
- Author: Laurent Sittler
- Tags: Windows 8, Getting Started

We were surprised when we saw that Windows 8.1 seems removed the capability of connecting to a wireless network secured with *WPA/TKIP Enterprise*.

This post will explain to you how to connect your Windows 8.1 laptop to a *WPA/TKIP Enterprise* wireless network and how to export the profile (to be able to import it later).

## Before starting

Microsoft removed the capability to set up the WPA security wireless and its associated types of encryption (c.-TKIP). While most companies have switched to WPA2 or better, there are still many companies still using WPA/TKIP Enterprise.

Even if Microsoft removed this feature from the wireless configuration interface, they apparently did not remove that capability from the operating system.

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to get your computer or other device running Windows 8.1 to connect to a wireless network running WPA/TKIP Enterprise.

## Configuration

> \[note\]**Note**  
>  
> In this case, the wireless network will named: `w_contoso`

1. Open a *Windows Command Prompt* (cmd) as **Administrator**

### Remove an existing profile

1. With the cmdlet below, display all wireless network profiles:  
```bash  
netsh wlan show profiles  
```
1. If the profile `w_contoso` appear into the list of profiles, you have to delete it with this cmdlet:  
```bash  
netsh wlan delete profile name="w_contoso"  
```

### Create a new connexion

1. Perform a right-click on the network icon from the Windows taskbar
2. From the contextual menu, click on Open the network and sharing center

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2019/03/Screenshot-2019-03-07-at-09.45.24-1.png)

1. Click on **Set up a new connection or network**

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2019/03/LsOnline-W81-NewNetowrkConfig.jpg)

1. Click on **Manually connect to a wireless network**

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2019/03/LsOnline-W81-ManualConfigSettings.jpg)

1. Enter information for the wireless network:  
```plaintext  
Network name (SSID): w_contoso  
Security type: WPA2-Enterprise (temporarely)  
Encryption type: AES (by default)  
```

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2019/03/LsOnline-W81-ManualConfigWiFiInfo.jpg)

1. Once completed, click on **Next** then **Close** to finish

### Edit existing connexion

1. To ensure that the wireless network profile was correctly added to the list of wireless profiles of Windows, use the below cmdlet:  
```bash  
netsh wlan show profile w_contoso  
```

*without quotation marks around the SSID*

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2019/03/LsOnline-W81-WifiProfilemanualResult.jpg)

1. Enter the command  
```bash  
netsh wlan  
```
1. Entrer la configuration du profile réseau sans fil:  
```bash  
netsh wlan set profileparameter name=w_contoso authentication=wpa encryption=tkip authMode=userOnly  
```

### Check configuration

1. You can check the wireless profile configuration with the below cmdlet:  
```bash  
netsh wlan show profile w_contoso  
```

*without quotation marks around the SSID*

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2019/03/LsOnline-W81-WiFi-ContosoFinalResult.jpg)

### Export profile

1. To keep a backup of a configuration of the wireless profile, it is possible to export it into an XML file, like this:  
```bash  
netsh wlan export profile name="w_contoso"  
```

### Import profile

1. To restore the configuration of a wireless profile, tape the below cmdlet:  
```bash  
netsh wlan add profile filename="path\w_contoso-profile.xml"  
```

## Bonus

### Forgot password?

1. Retrieve the list of existing WiFi profiles  
```bash  
netsh wlan show profile  
```
2. Display information and WiFi password in clear of `w_contoso` wireless network profile  
```bash  
netsh wlan show profile "w_contoso" key=clear  
```
  
  
Hoping this post will help you 🚀