It is likely that on some occasion you forget the password of a wifi you have connected to. Your Windows 10 computer may have automatically connected to this network, but someone else requires the password at the time. If this is the case, we can always look for the password itself on the PC, since it has been stored.
In Windows 10 a kind of registration with the passwords of the WiFi networks to which we have connected on occasion. We can do this with the network in which we are connected at the moment, but also if we want to look for a network to which we have connected at some point in the past.
Password of the WiFi in which we are connected
If we want to find the password of the WiFi network to which we are connected at that moment, we can do it simply on our PC with Windows 10. The first thing we will do in this case is to right click with the mouse on the WiFi icon found on the PC taskbar. When doing this, we press the option Open network and internet settings.
This brings us to the configuration of the connections. There we go to the Status section, where we have to look for the option called Change the adapter options. Then we click on it. It takes us to a Control Panel window, in which we see the adapters that the network card has. We right click on the adapter that is active at that moment and enter Status.
Then a new window opens where we have data on the status of said adapter. Click on the Wireless Properties tab, located at the top. Then we have to access the Security tab and check the Show characters box. This means that at that moment you can see the password of the WiFi to which we are connected at that moment. We already have this key to this dynamic, in case we have to share it.
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Past passwords registered
As we have spoken, in Windows 10 we also have the opportunity to access previous passwords. If on any occasion we have connected to a WiFi with the PC and we have marked that we want to connect automatically to that network, the password for this has been saved in our registry. Then we can access it on the computer, to access that password again.
For this case, the first thing we will do is open a Command Prompt window as administrator. To do this, we can use the Windows + X key combination. And then we just have to select the Command Prompt (Administrator) option. When this window opens on the computer screen, we just have to access the following command in it: netsh wlan show profile and then press Enter. This command will be executed, which will give us access to the passwords.
We will see a list, where we have to look for said WiFi network in question whose password we are interested in recovering in this case. If we want to search for a specific network, we can use another command for this in this case, which is the following: netsh wlan show profile name = name_detu_WiFi key = clear where we have to put the name of the network in question where we want to have indicated on the screen . You will then give us access to your data, so that we can see this key and we can copy or save it.
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As you can see, two very practical methods in Windows 10, with which you have access at all times to the WiFi passwords that have been saved in Windows 10. Therefore, do not hesitate to use these methods at any time if you think they will help you in your case. They are easy to use and fulfill this task at all times.
