If you forgot your Wi-Fi password in Windows 10, there is no way to view it through the operating system UI, even if you are an administrator. (*) In older Microsoft systems, things were simpler, as from the network and with a few clicks in the properties you could reveal a forgotten password.
So let's see how you can view saved Wi-Fi passwords on a system running Windows 10.
To view and recover Wi-Fi passwords saved in Windows 10, you need to do the following:
Open a command prompt with administrator privileges. Right-click in the lower-left corner under the Start Menu and select Command Prompt (Admin) or in Windows 10 search type “command prompt”. In the list of results, simply right-click the Command Prompt icon, and then click Run as administrator.
First we need to see which wireless profiles (networks) you have saved in Windows 10.
Type the following command:
netsh wlan show profiles
All networks that have been saved on your computer over time will be displayed.
Let's say the network you are interested in is called "iGuRugr"
Type the following command, replacing the network name with the one you are interested in:
netsh wlan show profile name="iGuRugr" key=clearRepeat the process for all profiles you want to see the saved password for.
You can also list all networks with all passwords at once, using the command below:
netsh wlan show profile * key=clear
Good luck!
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(*) Note: Following a suggestion from our reader Apostolos Freegan, we also present how to find the password from the Windows 10 UI.
The image-guide we present was created by Apostolos:
