By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
When someone asked me online "how do I change my wifi password in Windows 10", two questions came into my mind: You change the router password so that you want to change your wifi password in Windows 10 laptop to build the connection? Or you just need to reset the router wifi password for all connected devices again? The answers to two questions are totally different. Considering this, we will show you how to change wifi password on laptop windows 10 from two aspects.
If you are informed that the wifi password is changed, you need to build the connection again. Otherwise, you cannot access to the network. How can you change the saved wifi password on laptop Windows 10 and connect to wifi with new password? You can follow the steps to make it done.
Step 1: Open Windows 10 settings and click on Network & Internet.
Step 2: Select WiFi option on the left side and choose "Manage known networks".
Step 3: Here, you will get all the previous WiFi networks that you have ever connected to. Just click the one that you want to change the password.
Step 4: Choose the Forget option.
Step 5: After that, you can go to the desktop and check the network connection in the bottom right corner. Click your wireless network and enter the new password (network security key) to build the network connection.
We hardly change the router wireless network. But if you really need to do it, you can change the wifi password of your router with the help of Windows 10 laptop, you can make it done easily.
Step 1: Log in to the router as an administrator.
First of all, you need to make sure that your Windows 10 laptop is connected to the router and get the IP address of the router. The router default address is various, such as 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1. You can find it on the manual book which comes from the router. Or you can use the command line: ipconfig to get the default gateway.
After that, you can open a web browser, such as Google Chrome, to build the connection to the router with the IP address. After that, use the administrative login information to sign in the router.
Step 2: Access wireless network settings.
Once you login the router interface, you are provided a series of details. You need to find the Wireless or WLAN settings. In that page, you are able to change the wireless network password.
Step 3: Change the wifi password.
In the wireless setting part, you can check the encryption type and change the security key (password). At last, click the Save button to save the changes.
Once you change the wifi password or the router, you need to enter the new password again to reconnect the wireless network on all your devices.
Sometimes your family or friends will come over to your house for a party and the WiFi network needs to be shared, and then you find out that its password is lost. How to find the lost WiFi password on the Laptop quickly? The first thing you need to do is to download a reliable WiFi recovery software such as iSunshare WiFi Password Genius.
iSunshare WiFi Password Genius is able to recover all the wireless passwords from your computer within a few minutes and then you can view them.
Step 1: Launch the software and then click on the "Refresh" button. Then you can see all the Wi-Fi accounts and passwords that have been connected to your computer.
Step 2: To avoid forgetting the wifi password again, click "Save" to save the document.
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