Access connections previous profile loaction?

Hello All,
this has likely been posted before, but i'm new to the community. I am about to reimage a t400, and the user that machine belongs to has about 6 or 7 wireless profiles configured in access connections..
My question is before I image I would like to save all these profiles and copy them to an external drive, however I dont know where to look for these ohter custom wireless profiles. Any ideas?

Hi,
sorry I kind of was late with the respond, and accually it was such an easy one.
I assume, that you have used the export function of Access Connection.
Pelase let me know, what methjod did you used.
Cheers

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