How to change WiFi Network Connection priority in Windows 11/10

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W accept seen how to make Windows utilise Wired connection instead of wireless connection. In this post, we will see how to view & alter Wireless Network Connection Priority in Windows x/8 using CMD. Windows 11/10/eight does non have a Wireless Profile manager, which was available in Windows 7. Let us see how to change Wireless Network Connection Priority, natively using the command prompt.

Change Wireless Network Connection priority

Windows 7

In Windows 7 you can open up the Control Panel > Network& Sharing > Manage Wireless Networks. Once hither, y'all will run into all the WiFi networks.

Right-click on a network and you lot will see context menu options like Properties, Remove network, Rename, Move up or Move downwards. These options volition help you manage your WiFi networks.

Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows viii, Windows 7

For checking the list of Wireless Networks, you connected to earlier and find out their priority, open up a Command Prompt window. For this, open the WinX menu and click on Control Prompt. Next, run the command given below:

netsh wlan prove profiles

There, you lot will see the priority of your wireless networks.

Maybe you would like to modify it a chip. To do this, y'all will need to accept information about the proper noun of your interface (Wi-Fi as seen hither), and the network name whose priority you would want to change.

When all is in identify, run the following command

netsh wlan prepare profileorder name= "Reliance" interface="Wi-Fi" priority=1

Here replace Reliance with the name of your network, and Wi-Fi with the name of your network interface.

That'south it!

Now, when yous go back and check your profiles, y'all will detect that 'Reliance' has moved upwardly.

You tin always use our freeware WiFi Profile Manager, which tries to fill in this gap in Windows 10, to manage your WiFi profile.

I hope that helps!

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-xvi) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point earlier making whatever changes to your system & be conscientious virtually any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.