By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
If you forgot your Wi-Fi password, how do you find it on Windows 10 laptop? Of course, you need to connect the laptop to wireless network before. Here you will learn 3 effective but easy ways to check the connected Wi-Fi password in Windows 10, no matter it is laptop or desktop computer.
By following the steps below, you can find the Wi-Fi password for the current network connection on your laptop/desktop computer.
Step 1: Open Control Panel and click Network and Sharing Center item.
Step 2: Here you will get the basic network information for your Wi-Fi network. Then, click the Wi-Fi network connect as the screenshot showed below.
Step 3: In the pop-up window, you can get the general information of the network. Next, you can click the Wireless Properties button and go deep into details.
Step 4: Afterwards, you can tick the Show characters option below the Security option. Finally, you can get the Wi-Fi password.
With this way, you can easily find the current using Wi-Fi password. But if you want to find the previous connected wireless network password, this way cannot work. You can try Way 3 instead.
You can also use the command lines to get the current Wi-Fi password. The following steps present the guide for you.
Step 1:Search Command Prompt on windows search bar and right click to get Run as administrator option. Then run the command prompt as the administrator.
Step 2: Enter netsh wlan show profiles and press Enter key on the keyboard. After that, you will get all user profiles which have been connected to the computer.
Step 3: Enter netsh wlan show profile name =Profile-Name key=clear and press Enter key again. Here you should replace Profile-Name with your Wi-Fi name.
Step 4: At no time, you will get the Wi-Fi connectivity settings, security settings and cost settings. And the password is what it named key content under Security settings.
Now here comes the simplest way to find the Wi-Fi passwords on Windows computer. You can use the third party tool named iSunshare WiFi Password Genius to get the password of wireless network you are connecting to as well as the passwords of all wireless networks which you have connected to.
What you need to do for the Wi-Fi password recovery with iSunshare WiFi Password Genius? All you have to do is downloading and installing the software. After you launch it, you can get all the WiFi names and its passwords displayed on the software interface. But only the paid users can get the entire password for the Wi-Fi network.
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