{"id":12417,"date":"2018-08-02T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=12417"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:07:23","slug":"find-saved-wifi-passwords-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/find-saved-wifi-passwords-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Find Saved Wi-Fi Passwords on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I see the Wi-Fi passwords of a previously connected wireless connection? Is there a way to look up the saved Wi-Fi password on my computer so I can connect my phone to the same network? In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 simple ways to find all your saved Wi-Fi passwords on Windows 10 computer.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Find Wi-Fi Password of Your Current Network Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R to bring up the Run box. Type ncpa.cpl<\/strong> and press Enter to open up the Network Connections<\/a> window.\n

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  2. Right-click on your wireless network adapter, and select Status<\/strong> from the drop-down menu.\n

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  3. Click the Wireless Properties<\/strong> button.\n

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  4. Go to the Security<\/strong> tab. Click the Show characters<\/strong> check box, and the saved Wi-Fi password will be revealed.\n

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    Method 2: Find All Saved Wi-Fi Passwords Using Command Line<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Right click on Start<\/strong> button (Windows Logo) and then select Windows PowerShell<\/strong>.\n

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    2. Copy and paste the following command in the PowerShell console and hit Enter.\n

      (netsh wlan show profiles) | Select-String \u201c\\:(.+)$\u201d | %{$name=$_.Matches.Groups[1].Value.Trim(); $_} | %{(netsh wlan show profile name=\u201d$name\u201d key=clear)} | Select-String \u201cKey Content\\W+\\:(.+)$\u201d | %{$pass=$_.Matches.Groups[1].Value.Trim(); $_} | %{[PSCustomObject]@{ PROFILE_NAME=$name;PASSWORD=$pass }} | Format-Table -AutoSize<\/code><\/p>\n

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    3. You’ll get a list of Wi-Fi passwords to all wireless networks you’ve accessed before.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 3: Find All Saved Wi-Fi Passwords Using Third-Party Software<\/strong><\/p>\n

      If you have a Windows PC that’s currently connected to the Wi-Fi network or previously connected to it, you can look up all the saved Wi-Fi passwords using the software – WirelessKeyView<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      WirelessKeyView is a free portable tool created by NirSoft that can be used to recover all wireless network security keys\/passwords (WEP\/WPA) stored in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7. Once you open up the program, it will show you the details of all Wi-Fi networks configured on your PC.<\/p>\n

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      As you can see from the above screenshot, the Wi-Fi passwords are shown under the “Key (Ascii)<\/strong>” column. You can export your wireless passwords into a file for safe keeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I see the Wi-Fi passwords of a previously connected wireless connection? Is there a way to look up the saved Wi-Fi password on my computer so I can connect my phone to the same network? In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 simple ways to find all your saved Wi-Fi passwords on Windows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3910,3909],"class_list":["post-12417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-find-wifi-password-on-windows-10","tag-find-wifi-password-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}