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How To Get The WiFi Key On Your Computer?

by Abraham Aali
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Learning the methods that computers must follow to obtain the Wi-Fi keys of the networks to which they are connected is much more useful than you might think. Especially after noticing that it is not a customary password to memorize due to automatic storage on modern devices.

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4. How to know the Wifi password on your computer?
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6. Mac OS

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 Setting a password to your home Wi-Fi network is highly recommended to prevent access by unknown users. Also, if you do not write it down in a safe place, it is very likely that you will forget it, causing more than one annoyance when a friend who comes to visit you asks you to connect from their phone, for example.

In these cases, it is important to know how to see the Wi-Fi passwords that we have configured in the linking devices, which we will review in detail in this article, so that you can learn how to do it yourself, even in different operating systems.computerstop wifi turning on automatically android hero

How to know the Wifi password on your computer?

Here you will find the necessary information with which you will be able to access the password that you have configured in your wireless connection router, although we must warn you that in order to know the Wi-Fi password, connected to the PC, you will need a functional keyboard and its respective mouse.

Windows OS

Windows OS is one of the most used operating systems on computers of all kinds of categories, mainly thanks to the fact that most developers work on this OS to run their programs and applications. In addition to this, Windows has been in the public for several years, so it has multiple versions of its OS actively working on PCs for home and professional use alike.computer

Considering the aforementioned, in the next space, we will tell you what are steps you must follow to find the Wifi password in Windows OS, including a couple of old versions.

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Click Start and then type the acronym CMD in the search bar, which will result in the Command Prompt application. Select it and this will display a black background window where you must enter the command  WLAN show profile. When you press the Enter key, the window will show all the wireless networks that have their respective passwords stored on the computer.

Then enter the command  WLAN show profile name = xxx key = clear. Here, the “x” corresponds to the SSID name of the wireless network you want to access to see the key. If you press the Enter key again, you will be shown the stored password. 

Windows 10

Seeing the Wifi password in Windows 10 is pretty straightforward. You will have to go to the Start button and then look in the bar for the Control Panel application. When you enter this section, you will see in the series of applications a call Center of Networks and Sharing Resources. Click on it and this will take you to a new window where the wireless home network you are currently connected to will appear.computer

To see the Wi-Fi password, you must click on the name of the network; thus displaying a dialog box with several options to choose from. Find the Wireless Properties button and select it to enter this new section. Here you will have to click on the Security tab and you will see the Wi-Fi key encrypted next to the Show characters box.

Windows 7, 8 and 8.1

The steps to follow to know the Wifi password of the linked network in these versions of Windows is similar to those of Windows 10.

To begin, you will have to click on Start and type Control Panel so that you can enter the appropriate section. Here you will find a wide list with multiple accesses. Look for one called Red. Clicking on it will open a window where you must choose the option for Network and Sharing Center.computer

Finally and, as in Windows 10, this will update the window with the pertinent information of the connected networks, as well as the various accesses to be able to see the established passwords that have been stored in the computers.

Mac OS

Mac OS is the operating system developed and installed on all Apple brand computers. This is characterized by having a fairly reliable security system, as well as a user-friendly interface that has led it to be part of the most widely used OS in the world, whether for study, work, or entertainment.

Now, here we will tell you what steps you must follow in order to see the Wifi password from any computer that is running this particular operating system.

  1.   Go to Finder, where you will click to display the window where you will see the different sections of the computer. In the list on the left side, you will see the Applications option. When you select it, the window will update and you will have to search for the Keychain Access application.
  1. Once inside Keychain Access, you will be able to see the list of all the devices to which the computer has been connected using a password. Find the SSID of the network the computer is currently connected to and double-click on it.
  1.   Now a box will be displayed on the computer screen with the information regarding the connection network, such as the name, its class, among others. In the end, you will find a section with the password represented in a series of dots.
  1. Next to this section, you will see the Show password box, which you must mark with the pointer to show the Wi-Fi key of the network connection to which the computer is linked.

Whether you prefer to work with Windows or Mac OS, knowing how to see the Wifi password will always be useful, even more than you imagine and, as you have seen, obtaining it is not as difficult as some would think.

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Abraham Aali

Abraham Aali

Abraham Aali is a Staff Writer for Biztech Age. He covers industry news, including interviews with executives and industry leaders about the products, services and trends affecting small businesses, drawing on his 20 years of marketing knowledge.He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Qatar University and MSIT from King Abdulaziz University.

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