If you use a Wi-Fi network at home, work, or elsewhere and have saved passwords for various websites and services, you may be wondering how to see all of them at once on your Windows 10 computer. To do this, open the Settings app on your computer and click on the Network & Internet category. Under this category, click on Wi-Fi. On the next screen, under “Wi-Fi networks,” you’ll see a list of all the networks that are currently connected to your computer. Beneath each network name will be a list of saved passwords for that network. If you want to view only passwords for specific websites or services, simply select the ones that you want to view and click on “Show password.” You can also copy the passwords to a text document if you want to keep them safe. ..
How to See Your Current Wi-Fi Password on Windows 10
The Settings app in Windows 10 can’t directly display the Wi-Fi password of the current network you’re connected to, even if you have it saved — you have to dig for it a bit.
Right-click the Wi-Fi icon on the taskbar and click “Open Network & Internet Settings.”
Scroll down to the “Advanced Network Settings” section, then click “Network and Sharing Center.”
Click the small “Wi-Fi” button towards the middle of the screen to open the Wi-Fi network’s Status window.
Click “Wireless Properties,” then tick the “Show Characters” box in the Wireless Network Properties window that pops up to show your password.
Of course, you can only view the passphrase of the current network you’re connected to in this way. If you want to view all of the Wi-Fi networks saved on your PC, you’ll need to use one of the following two methods instead.
Use NirSoft’s WirelessKeyView to View All of Your Wi-Fi Passwords on Windows 10
You can view saved passwords with built-in command-line tools in Windows, but we recommend NirSoft’s free WirelessKeyView application. It’s a lightweight tool you don’t even have to install to use—just download it, open the ZIP file, and then double-click the included EXE file (if you have file extensions hidden, open the “WirelessKeyView” application file). You’ll then see a list of saved network names and their passwords stored in Windows.
The “Network Name” column shows the name of the Wi-Fi network—in other words, its SSID. To find the password associated with a network, look under the “Key (Ascii)” column for that network name. This is the password you type to connect to that network.
To back up this information, you can select File > Save All Items. You’ll get a text file containing this information, so you can take it with you to a new PC or store it for later.
Use the Command Line to View All of Your Wi-Fi Passwords on Windows 10
Windows 10’s standard Control Panel only lets you see the password of the Wi-Fi network you’re currently connected to. If you don’t want to download third-party software, you’ll have to use command line tools to discover this information.
To find a password on Windows without third-party software, open a Command Prompt or PowerShell window. To do this, right-click the Start button or press Windows+X, and then click “PowerShell.”
Run the following command to see the list of saved network profiles on your system:
Look for the name of the network you need the password for, and then run the following command, replacing “NETWORK” with the name of that network:
Look under “Security Settings” in the output. The “Key Content” field displays the Wi-Fi network password in plaintext.
Repeat this process for each Wi-Fi network you want to find the password for.
If you don’t have it saved in Windows, there are many other ways you can find a forgotten Wi-Fi password, including on another device (like a Mac), in a router’s web interface, or even printed on the router itself.
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