Reset Windows Networking

Fix for wireless profile that is broken/duplicated and cannot be deleted.

• Open an Administrative Command Prompt. Display wireless profiles.

netsh wlan show profiles

• Delete wireless profile.

netsh wlan delete profile name="network"

If REALLY broken above will give Element not found. Fix below.

• Logged in as local admin browse to:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces\{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}\{Random-GUID}

• With each file right click → Edit to open each of these profiles in Microsoft Word or Wordpad to confirm that they were the problem SSID
• Upon confirmation of SSID deleted the files.
• Reboot
• Recreate delted wireless profile.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheNuclearOptionResettingTheCrapOutOfYourNetworkAdaptersInVista.aspx

Tested on Windows 7 Pro.

netsh int ip reset

netsh winsock reset catalog

shutdown -r -t 0