How to Hide Wi-Fi Network in Windows 10

This guide explains how to hide Wi-Fi Network in Windows 10, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

Windows lets you hide any Wi-Fi network you don't want to see in the network menu. Here is how you can do it in Windows 10.

Find the Wi-Fi SSID name

To hide Wi-Fi network, you need to know its SSID name. Put simply, SSID is the name of the Wi-Fi network.

To find the SSID name of Wi-Fi network, click on the network icon on the taskbar and you will see all available Wi-Fi networks, along with their names. Note the SSID of the Wi-Fi network you want to hide.

Find the Wi-Fi SSID name

Steps to hide Wi-Fi network in Windows 10

1. Open the Start menu .

2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights.

3. In the Command Prompt window, execute the command below. Don't forget to replace "WIFI_NAME" with the SSID you found earlier.

netsh wlan add filter permission=block ssid="WIFI_NAME" networktype=infrastructure

As soon as you execute the command, Windows will hide the network. You will see the message "The filter is added on the system successfully" .

You will see the message "The filter is added on the system successfully"

From now on, you will no longer see that Wi-Fi network in the network menu.

Unhide Wi-Fi network in Windows 10

If you want to unhide the previously hidden Wi-Fi network, simply replace "add" in the above command with "delete". After replacement, the command will look like below. Again, replace WIFI_NAME with the actual Wi-Fi SSID.

netsh wlan delete filter permission=block ssid="WIFI_NAME" networktype=infrastructure

When you unhide, the Command Prompt will display a "The filter is added on the system successfully" response .

The Command Prompt will display the response "The filter is added on the system successfully"

View all blocked Wi-Fi networks and allowed in Windows 10

Not everyone can remember the previously hidden Wi-Fi SSID. This is especially true if you have been blocking a Wi-Fi network for a long time. For such situations, Windows has a pretty neat command.

Just execute the command below in Command Prompt and it will show all Wi-Fi networks that you have blocked or allowed.

netsh wlan show filters

If you've hidden a Wi-Fi network before, you'll see that Wi-Fi name in the block list.

View all blocked Wi-Fi networks and allowed in Windows 10