RETRIEVE YOUR WIFI PASSWORD USING WINDOWS

Most Wifi users rely on the browser keeping their password for them, but they later rather than never need to know by a time they had forgotten it- they want to share it with a friend or the computer itself might forget the password. Fortunately, there is a way by which it can be retrieve if lost - your password.

Firstly, open the connections window, the window always safe password of networks ever been connected to. To view your saved passwords, open the Network Connection windows by a right-click on your network ICON provided in the system tray.

Select “Open network and Sharing Center”. Hit the “Change adapter settings” which is available in the left menu.

Otherwise, press the window key +R, type ncpa.cpl , after press enter to open the window.

Secondly, right click on your wireless adapter which in some cases is labeled “Wi-Fi”, or it may be tagged with the manufacturer’s name. select “Status” from the menu.

11. Open the connection’s properties window, hit on “Wireless Properties , after this click the Security tab.

22. Display the characters: Check the “Show Characters” box and your wireless password will be displayed. If the option to display this character is not available then go to the next step.

33. Make use of the app WireleesKeyView which you can simply have by download. The freeware program from NirSoft that automatically scan windows registry and extract all saved wireless keys it does not need to be installed

44. Run the application.

55. All network names that you’ve ever been connected to with your computer will be displayed, check for the network that you want to retrieve the password for, then look at the “key (Ascii)” column. This is the wireless password for the network.

…In window XP, a WPA-PSK key cannot be displayed in ASCII format so make use of the key from the Hex column. This key will work perfectly like the regular ASCII key, but will be considerably longer.