Find Your Network Password in Windows

Find Your Network Password in Windows

A quick method to retrieve old network passwords from command line

This is taken from the article from CNET, that I myself have used when forgotten passwords for a local are network. I do like to document this knowledge for myself, since you never know when it can be useful. Although the article says to run the command prompt in admin mode, that is not true. You can do so from just your regular command prompt or power shell.

The first thing we need to do is to find all our stored local network credentials by using the following command:

> netsh wlan show profile

It will then display the local area networks you have connected to, like the image below:

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Last, we are going to run the netsh command to show a profile of a given network connection with the key set as clear, this will show the password in clear text. To do so we will run the next command:

> netsh wlan show profile "Verizon-791L-8526" key=clear

It will display the password used on that local area network as shown below:

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There you have it, a quick simple way to retrieve forgotten passwords from your own machine... or others :D