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Erase Previous Internet/Wi-Fi Connections from Your Laptop

This Tutorial addresses:
  • Laptops
  • Wireless
  • Connection
Being an owner of a Windows laptop, it is obvious that you carry the laptop with you everywhere you go. Since most laptops nowadays have a built-in Wi-Fi network card, you can connect your laptop with any of the available wireless networks as long as the wireless access point (WAP) has been set up accordingly to accept the connection requests.

After you leave the place, even though your laptop gets disconnected from the wireless network, the name of the network remains in the laptop and is always displayed whenever you open the wireless networks list.

Although leaving alone the traces of the previously connected wireless networks doesn’t harm your laptop at all, you might want to remove the networks in order to reduce the names of the unused wireless networks from the list, especially when you are sure that you will never use those wireless networks again, not at least for a while. By doing so you can prevent the wireless networks list in your laptop from getting overpopulated with the unwanted/useless wireless network names.

Here is how you can remove the previous Wi-Fi network connections (now unused) from your Windows laptop (Windows 7 is used in this demonstration):

  1. Log on to your Windows 7 PC with an administrative account.
  2. On the desktop window, locate and right-click the Internet network icon in the system tray from the bottom-right corner.
  3. From the displayed list, click Open Network and Sharing Center.

  4. On the next interface, under the left pane, click Manage wireless networks.

  5. Under the Networks you can view, modify, and reorder section, locate and right-click the desired connection that you want to remove from your laptop.
  6. From the context menu that appears, click the Remove network option.

  7. On the warning message box that appears, click Yes to confirm the deletion.


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