Nowadays the most common is to navigate through wireless networks. If we look back, just a few years ago it was normal to connect from a computer that in turn was connected to a cable router. Little by little, mobile devices with Wi-Fi connectivity were emerging. Also the improvement of routers has made it much more common to navigate wirelessly. Today we are going to explain how we can check the Wi-Fi keys to which we have connected from Windows.
The importance of Wi-Fi networks
As we mentioned, Wi-Fi networks are of great importance today. This makes us connect from very different places and from very varied equipment. It is quite common that we enter a Wi-Fi network from a computer, for example, and then want to enter from the mobile or any other device. It may even happen to us in our own home.
Now, we may not have the Wi-Fi network password at hand at that time, that we don’t remember it, or that we simply want to tell someone at any given time to use it on another computer. Luckily we have the ability to easily know the password of a Wi-Fi network to which we have connected from Windows.
Keep in mind that Windows 10 is today the most widely used operating system on desktop computers. That is why this may come in handy to many users who are interested in easily knowing the passwords of the Wi-Fi networks they have used.
How to know the password of a Wi-Fi network from Windows
We have several options available for this. We will explain some of them so that we can put them into practice and find out in this way what is the password of a Wi-Fi network in Windows to which we have previously connected.
Through the Command Prompt
One option we have to know the password of a Wi-Fi network from Windows 10 is to use the Command Prompt. To do this, just connect to that particular network and use a command that we will explain.
To enter you have to go to the beginning, we write Command Prompt and access. Subsequently you have to put the command netsh wlan show profile and execute it.
Here we will see a list of all the Wi-Fi networks to which we have connected from Windows on this computer. We simply have to see the one that interests us and execute the netsh wlan show profile command Network name key = clear.
It will show us a series of information about that particular network, as we see. There will also appear the password of that Wi-Fi network.
From the Windows settings
We can also see the passwords of the Wi-Fi networks that we have used in Windows from the configuration itself. To do this on this occasion we have to go to the Control Panel, enter Networks and Internet and click on Network and Sharing Center. We will see the network to which we are connected and click.
After this we have to give Wireless Properties. We give Security and there appears the password of that particular network. We just give it to show and go.
Wifi Profile Manager
We can also make use of third party applications. One of them, very simple to use, is Wifi Profile Manager . We can download it for free
Once we open this program, it will show us the networks to which we have connected. In the case of being connected to one of them we can also know the passwords easily. We just have to click on it and click on Export to XML. It will save a file in the system and we can open it to show us information about that particular network, where the password also appears.
In short, these are the options we have to know the password of a Wi-Fi network to which we have connected since Windows 10.