There may come a time that you may forget the password of your Wi-Fi connection. Or it may happen that your family member or office colleague has connected to the wireless connection, but has forgotten to share the password with you. At such times, if you need to find the WiFi password, then you can do so via the Control Panel or by using the Command Prompt.
Find WiFi password via Control PanelFrom the
WinX Menu, open
Control Panel >
Network and Sharing Center. Here click on the
Connection WiFi link.
The WiFi Status box will open. Click on the Properties button to open the Wireless Network Properties box. Here under the Security tab, select the Show characters check-box. The password will be visible against the Network security key column.
Find Wi-Fi password with Command Prompt
You can also use the
command prompt to find the WiFi key. To do so, from the
WinX Menu, select
Command Prompt, type the following and hit
Enter:
netsh wlan show profile name=YOURWIFINAME key=clear
Here, in place of
YOURWIFINAME, you have to
type the name of your WiFi connection.
You will then be able to see the WiFi password under
Security settings >
Key Content.
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