2 Ways to View Wifi Password in Windows 10 (100% Proven)

Sometimes you want to see the wifi password that has been connected to your laptop because you forgot the wifi password on your campus or you forgot the password from your own wifi.

To view and find out the wifi password, the method is quite simple and easy to do even for ordinary people though. Well, in this discussion, I will discuss about how to see the wifi password in Windows 10.

However, you must remember that this tutorial is not for cracking passwords or the like, but only looking at passwords that have been saved or already connected to our laptop. This way of seeing passwords in Windows 10 can not only be applied to Windows 10 but you can apply it to Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows 7.

2 Ways to View Wifi Password in Windows 10

Here I will give you two ways to see the wifi password, namely through the Network and Sharing Center and the Command Prompt. For more details, see the explanation below.

A. Through Network and Sharing Center

1. Look for the WiFi icon in the lower-right corner of your Windows 10 taskbar. Then, right click and select Open Network and Sharing Center like the picture below.

how to see wifi password in windows 10

Or you can use the control panel by opening the control panel and then clicking Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center like the picture below.

Network and Internet, Network and Sharing Center 2. Next, select the WiFi connection for which you want to know the password.

choose a WiFi connection

3. After window Wi-Fi Status appears, select button Wireless Properties.

select the Wireless Properties button

4. After window Wireless Network Properties open, select tab Security.

Wireless Network Properties 5. Finally, to see the WiFi password connected to your laptop in Windows 10, check the box Show characters. Then, automatically the WiFi password will be visible.

check the box Show characters

B. Via Command Prompt (CMD)

1. Open Command Prompt as administrator via the Power User Task Menu by hovering the cursor in the lower left corner and then right-clicking on the icon Start and select Command Prompt (Admin).

how to see wifi password on pc

2. Then, type the command netsh wlan show profiles in the Command Prompt as shown below.

how to see wifi password on cellphone

3. After you run the command, several SSIDs that have been connected or connected to your laptop or computer will appear as shown below.

4. Next, to find out the Wi-Fi password on a certain SSID, type the command netsh wlan show profile name=”SSID name” key=clear then press Enter to execute the command. See the example in the image below where the SSID name I use is naoTomori2.

5. After the above command is executed, it will display a lot of information from the SSID that you want to know the password for. Well, the WiFi password from the SSID, you can see in the section Security settings.

how to see wifi password

The data in the red box is the password for the Wi-Fi you are using.

Well, from the two methods above, you can choose the way that you think is easier. That’s the discussion this time about how to see Wifi passwords on Windows 10. See you again in the next article!