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When you click on the wireless icon on the taskbar, network flyout comes up which displays all the Wi-Fi networks around your location detected by your PC’s wireless adapter. Depending on the time of the day and where you live, you might see a few Wi-Fi network names (SSIDs) to tens of them.
People who have configured Windows 10 to automatically connect to a Wi-Fi network generally don’t need to click on the Wi-Fi icon as Windows 10 automatically connects to the Wi-Fi network as soon you turn on the computer.
Windows Connect To Hidden Network
Now connect to your hidden wi-fi using windows 10 device. The first thing to do is you have to right-click and open the Network and Sharing Center as shown in the image below. Open Network and Sharing Center. In the dialog box Network and Sharing Center, click or tap “Set up a new connection or network”. Set up a new connection or network. Users are complaining they can’t connect to hidden Wi-Fi networks in Windows 10 Solution 1 – Manually connect to the hidden SSID network. Solution 2 – Turn off your Bluetooth. If you have issues connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network. Solution 3 – Temporarily turn on SSID broadcasting.
If for some reason, you don’t like to see your neighbor’s Wi-Fi network in the network/Wi-Fi flyout, you can make your Windows 10 PC to ignore the Wi-Fi and don’t show it in the Wi-Fi flyout.
As you are aware, the network/Wi-Fi flyout doesn’t offer an option to hide a network. We need to use the Command Prompt to hide a Wi-Fi network.
May 13, 2018 Users are complaining they can’t connect to hidden Wi-Fi networks in Windows 10 Solution 1 – Manually connect to the hidden SSID network. Solution 2 – Turn off your Bluetooth. If you have issues connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network. Solution 3 – Temporarily turn on SSID.
To manually configure a wireless network with Windows 10, please follow these steps: Press the Windows Logo + X from the Start screen and then select Control Panel from the menu. Open the Network and Internet. Open the Network and Sharing Center. Click the Set up a new connection or network.
Hide Wi-Fi SSIDs in Windows 10
In this guide, we will see how to hide one or more Wi-Fi networks in the Wi-Fi flyout in Windows 10.
Step 1:Run the Command Prompt as administrator. To do that, type CMD in the Start/taskbar search, right-click on Command Prompt entry and then click Run as administrator option.
When you see the User Account Control prompt, click on the Yes button.
Step 2: At the Command Prompt window, execute the following command: