Forgot the Wi-Fi key stored on your Windows 10 PC? Following these steps you can recover it

Surely this situation has been repeated on more than one occasion. You have forgotten the password of a Wi-Fi network that you connect to at home and no, you can't look under the router to help you well because you do not have access or because you changed it at the time. And to top it off, you don't have a backup.

To remedy these situations, today we are going to teach you how to see the password of a wireless network to which we connect from our pc. The only requirement is to have a PC equipped with Windows 10 on which you can follow the steps that we show below.

The main advantage is that we are not going to depend on third-party applications and we can fend for ourselves to end the problem .

View Wi-Fi password

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To achieve this, simply access the taskbar and look for the Wi-Fi connection icon. We click on it and from the two options it offers we mark Open Network and Internet Settings."

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Once inside the Network and Internet menu, we must look at the left column that appears under the name of Wi-Fi. Click on it and scroll down in the right area of ​​the window until you reach the option Network and Sharing Center "

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Click on Network and Sharing Center>"

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Pressing on it opens a screen with aspects related to the Wi-Fi network in question and we look at a tab called Wireless properties ."

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A window opens with several fields, one of which is titled Network security key It is the Wi-Fi network password -Fi that by default appears hidden. To be able to see it, we only have to select the option Show characters that appears in the lower left area and the system will show us the password. It may be that in the process it asks us for administrator permissions to advance in any of the steps."

In this way and without third-party applications involved we can know the password of the Wi-Fi network that we had forgotten

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