View WiFi Password in Windows
In order to view the WiFi password on your Windows machine, you need to make sure you are already connected to the WiFi network or have previously connected to the WiFi network. If so, then go ahead and right-click on the WiFi icon in the system tray and choose Open Network and Sharing Center.
1. Open the Network Connections page in the Control Panel by typing in ncpa.cpl in Run.
2. Now go ahead and click on Change Adapter Settings in the left-hand menu.
3. Click Wireless Properties to open WiFi network properties.
4. Go to the Security tab and check the box next to “Show characters” to reveal your current Wifi password.
Now the “Network security key” text field will display the WiFi password.
This approach only functions with live connections. This means that you cannot view the network security key or password using this approach if you are not connected to a Wi-Fi network. You must follow the instructions in the next section to accomplish this.
Find All WiFi Passwords Saved in Windows 10/11
What if you need to locate every WiFi password that has been saved on your Windows computer? The saved WiFi passwords in Windows can be found in five different methods. Let’s talk about them both.
View WiFi Passwords Using Command Prompt
To see all the Wifi passwords, you will need to run some commands in the command prompt.
- Start Command Prompt with administrative privileges.
- To view all of the WiFi profiles saved on your computer, use the following command:
netsh wlan show profiles
- Now run the following command to reveal the Wifi password content of a profile:
netsh wlan show profile name=<span style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><em>WifiConnectionName</em></span><span style="font-size: inherit;"> key=clear</span>Replace WifiConnectionName with Wifi SSID, which you can find from the above mentioned command.
The command above will reveal the password for the selected WiFi SSID in front of “Key content,” as in the image below:
If you only want to see the password omitting all other details, you can run the following command instead:
netsh wlan show profile name=WifiConnectionName key=clear | find /I "Key Content"
You can check all the WiFi passwords saved on your computer using the same command. Just replace the profile name with a different one.
