How to find Wifi-Password using Command Prompt !

Whenever any device get connected to a wifi network, the password of that wifi network gets stored in that particular device. In order to make our wifi network secure we tend to select a very strong password so that unwanted people can not have an access to it. For the very first time when we connect our devices to a wifi network it tend to ask the password and as we have set it recently we easily enter it and gets connected to the network, but most of the time what happen is we tend to forget the password and then we try to find it by using different tricks, In this article I am going to tell you guys a simple Command Prompt trick that will allow you to find the password of any wifi network that your System have ever connected to.

Steps to find Wifi-Password using Command Prompt!

• First of all, open the command prompt in your windows PC and make sure to open it as an Administrator, cause the command that we are going to use require Admin Privilege. Just type CMD in Search Program and then right click on it and then select run as Administrator from the Menu.


• Once the command prompt is opened, You need to simply type the following command: netsh wlan show profile name=Your Network Name key=clear, here in the profile name you need to enter the name of that wifi network whose password you want to find. for example, if your wifi network name is MyWifi, you simply have to write the command as netsh wlan show profile name=MyWifi  key=clear and then you need to hit the enter button and it will display all the details of your wifi network along with its password.






Here at the Key Content Field, Your Password will be displayed

• If you want to view all your previous WiFi connections, then you simply need to type the command: “netsh wlan show profiles” and hit enter.

This is the way of recovering your password using the Command Prompt, if you prefer to use command prompt for doing your most of the work in windows rather than using the GUI then this method is just for you.