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Retrive wifi passwords in windows
2024-06-05

IMPORTANT

All the tutorials/steps provided here is only for educational purpose. Use/practise them wisely.

Open command prompt or terminal in your computer#

  1. List all the connected network names
netsh wlan show profiles

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  • In the above picture, you can see that, all the networks my machine connected to, are listing.
  • Here, note the network name, for which you wanted to retrive the password and then go for step 2.

  1. Describe the specific details for the network.
  • Here, execute the below command with replacing your network name
netsh wlan show profiles name="netwokr-name" key=clear -- (Example)

I wish to retrive password for the network "Tommy".

netsh wlan show profiles name="Tommy" key=clear

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  • You can find the password for the specific wifi network name Tommy in Security settings

Conclusion#

That’s it! You’ve learnt, how to retrive a saved password from your windows machine using command prompt. If you have any doubts/issues/errors with the above contents, feel free to contact me. Cheers, Happy learning.