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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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No 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 enter this command.

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.