I'm using Vista Business SP2. I had set up an ad-hoc network (including ICS) but I then had problems with my PDA to access it. After a while I gave up (but that's not the problem I want to discuss here). After this I wanted to remove this ad-hoc network, but this did not work - and even after googling around I did not find any working hint to remove it. The funny thing is I succeded to removed the profile using "Manage Wireless Networks", but still the ad-hoc network remains active. Reboot did not help neither... Using "netsh wlan show profiles" I can see the profile is gone, but nevertheless the ad-hoc networks keeps showing up on the window "Connect to a network" (and also at the end of the output of "netsh wlan show all")!! Last but not least I tried a "System Restore " (to a restore point before I set up the ad-hoc network of course) but with no effect!! The ad-hoc network still shows up! So what should I try next??

This is what I call a neat answer, short and ... working! THANKS!

I have beenGoogling for the last 45 minits hours for a soloutin to this problem and found this forum thank you

I have exactly the same problem but in Windows 7 x64 ? Where can I find this "Merge or delete network location" in Windows 7? As you probably know Windows 7 doesn't have classic view in control panel anymore :/

If you want to remove a network in Windows 7, go to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Network and Sharing Center > Manage Wireless Networks (in the left pane) and right-click the one you want to Remove and choose Remove network.

that's not really helping since "manage wireless networks" does not display and created ad-hoc networks but instead only the wirless networks available at the time. apparently my computer (win7 64bit) automatically provides the ad-hoc network i created ages ago but i'm unable to stop it from doing that. thankfully i was clever enough to encrypt the network when i created it.

Disabling the adapter and putting back on after few seconds helped a lot. Thanks

Hi I have the same problem and For some reason There is no "Customize" option for me I'm running vista ultimate, please help, this problem has been going on for too long now.