Windows – List Available Wireless Networks from Command Line

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I'm currently trying to do some physical debugging with one of our devices. It would be very useful to be able to use a command to output a list of available wireless networks to the command line or to a file (which I could then run a diff on later). Is there a way to do this in Windows 7?

Best Answer

Try NetShell.

The command netsh wlan show networks should work for you.

You can save output to a text file by using redirection like so:

netsh wlan show networks > somefile.txt

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In Windows XP SP3 Vista and beyond (you need to install powershell v1 manually) , use PowerShell:

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The PrnMngr.vbs file from XP (located in the /Windows/System32 folder) does work on Windows 2000. Just find and copy it over to the 2000 machine from an XP machine and run it with:

cscript prnmngr.vbs -l >> c:\printers.txt

I found it wouldn't run from my user's desktop for some reason, but when I copied the .VBS to the root of C: it ran fine.

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Try NetShell.

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