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Forgot your Wi-Fi password in Windows 10? Find it easily!

So there comes a time when you need the password for your home Wi-Fi, either to give it to a guest or you bought a new device and want to connect it.
At that moment, you forgot what the password is!

You start to panic because you don't remember what it is, or where it is, and of course, it's not the original one you wrote on your router (which is the correct practice).

Windows 10 gives you the ability to find your Wi-Fi in two ways.

The first way is to connect wirelessly to your network and right-click on its icon located at the bottom right and select "Open Network and Sharing Center"

wifi icon                Network-center-wi-fi-password

After selecting it, a new window will open and in the connections you will have to select your network

Wi-Fi network center
By selecting it, it will show you the status window of your network and you will have to select the network properties

Wi-fi status                    Wi-fi properties

In the next step you should select "Security" and there the field with the dots and a checkbox with the option "Show characters" will appear. Select the show characters option and as if by magic, the Password appears

Wi-fi security

 

The second way is a little easier as long as you remember the following command, which should be executed from the command line. The advantage of this command is that you do not need to be physically connected to your wireless network.
We open the command line by  windows-start-wi-fi typing "Command line" and pressing enter.

command-prompt-wi-fi
At this point we write the following command and press enter

<code>netsh wlan show profile name=”Το όνομά του (SSID)” key=clear</code>
where in our case it is:
netsh wlan show profile name=”visitor” key=clear

command-prompt-wi-fi-command

 

With these two methods we can easily see all the passwords we have saved on our computer

 

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