Discover Wi-Fi Password for Existing Profile

If you have already connected to a Wi-Fi network previously then a profile for that network is created in Windows.  To see the existing Wi-Fi profiles open a Command prompt and run as administrator.

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Now enter the command netsh wlan show profiles

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A list of Wi-Fi profiles will be produced like below.

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Now pick the profile that you want to get the passcode for and then enter this command to retrieve the passcode.

netsh wlan show profile name="<Name of Wi-Fi Profile>" key=clear

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The output will have a field called "Key Content"

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And this is the password for that Wi-Fi profile.

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Created 25 January 2023 15:59:52 by Glen Taylor
Updated 25 January 2023 16:25:35 by Glen Taylor