WiFi Profile Manager

WiFi Profile Manager is an application created to help you manage Wi-Fi profiles in Windows 8.

This features is present in Windows 7 and allows for a more intuitive way of choosing and connecting to available networks. With it you can view all the available networks and choose for yourself the one you want to connect to. This comes in handy if for example you know which networks behave better opposed to others.

The application displays a comprehensive, minimalistic interface which makes it a cinch to use. In the main window you can view the names of the available wireless networks along with details about their connection type, mode and security status.

WiFi Profile Manager stores information about all the Wi-Fi networks you connect to and adds them to the list. From this list, with a simple right click you can move a selected item up or down, according to it’s priority. This way you can set the good connections on top so you can differentiate them from the least good ones.

If the list you create gets too big and hard to navigate through, you can always remove the unneeded entries. You can also export networks to XML format as well as import them.

Apart from the connection type and mode, you can view additional details about the available networks. WiFi Profile Manager provides you info about the security type, encryption method and key.

This Wi-Fi profile manager delivers a much needed function but it does require a bit more work when it comes to functionality. In some cases, you find that all the networks are displayed as unavailable or that removing a connection only adds it again but it eventually works after you restart the application. It is a bit buggy but what seems to bother the most is the lack of a refresh button.

All-in-all, WiFi Profile Manager is a practical tool that can be an invaluable one after some tweaking here and there.