upinflamezzz
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I can not boot the drive so I'm looking for a particular folder. Taking from XP pc moving to Win 7 PC.
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Where do I find saved wifi spots on a hard drive?
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Almost certainly not in a folder, but in the registry (which is found as several files in X:\Windows\System32\config, where X is the folder where your Windows XP system is located.
Regedit can be used from another working Windows installation (not necessarily the same Windows Version) to view the XP registry files above offline. See for a way to do it or Google something like:
A regedit search on the name of my saved SSIDs finds the entry in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WcmSvc\CMPOL
as one or more profiles here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles
and here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\Unmanaged
and as keys here:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-267703354-992214052-3642511956-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\DataUsage\Wlan
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\DataUsage\Wlan
(This was Windows 8, but it will be similar, if not identical in Windows XP)
It will be difficult to extract Passkeys from the registry for these SSIDs - probably easiest to make the connections anew.
Regedit can be used from another working Windows installation (not necessarily the same Windows Version) to view the XP registry files above offline. See for a way to do it or Google something like:
Code:
use regedit to view another registry offlineA regedit search on the name of my saved SSIDs finds the entry in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WcmSvc\CMPOL
as one or more profiles here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles
and here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\Unmanaged
and as keys here:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-267703354-992214052-3642511956-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\DataUsage\Wlan
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\DataUsage\Wlan
(This was Windows 8, but it will be similar, if not identical in Windows XP)
It will be difficult to extract Passkeys from the registry for these SSIDs - probably easiest to make the connections anew.
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