Saturday, 8 April 2017

View WIFI password using CMD

HOW TO SEE THE SAVED WIFI’S PASSWORD USING CMD

STEP 1: RIGHT CLICK ON THE START BUTTON AND SELECT COMMAND PROMPT (ADMIN) OPTION.
STEP 2: A DIALOGUE BOX APPEARS WITH YES AND NO OPTIONS SELECT YES
STEP 3: A COMMAND PROMPT WINDOW WILL APPEAR.
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “wmic” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 5: THEN TYPE “quit” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 6: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan show profiles” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 7: NOW WE CAN FIND LIST OF ALL NETWORKS WHICH WERE CONNECTED TO OUR PC BEFORE OR SAVED NETWORKS
STEP 8: NOTE THE NETWORK NAME WHICH YOU WANT TO SEE THE PASSWORD IN THAT LIST. FOR EXEMPLE TAKE THE NETWORK AS “ABCD”
STEP 9: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan show profiles ABCD” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 10: WE CAN FIND SOME COMMANDS ARE RUNNING IN THE DISPLAY, AT THE LAST WE CAN FIND “PROFILE INFORMATION”, “CONNECTIVITY SETTINGS”, “SECURITY SETTINGS” AND “COST SETTINGS”
STEP 11: IN SECURITY SETTINGS WE CAN FIND “security key” IF WE FIND “security key : absent” THEN THE WIFI PASSWORD IS UNSECURE SO, WE CAN CONNECT TO THE WIFI WITHOUT PASSWORD. IF WE FIND “security key : present” THEN THE WIFI PASSWORD IS SECURE SO, WE CAN FIND THE WIFI PASSWORD.
STEP 12: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan show profiles ABCD Key=clear” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 13: AGAIN WE CAN FIND SOME COMMANDS ARE RUNNING IN THE DISPLAY, AT THE LAST WE CAN FIND “PROFILE INFORMATION”, “CONNECTIVITY SETTINGS”, “SECURITY SETTINGS” AND “COST SETTINGS”
STEP 14: NOW IN THE SECURITY SETTINGS WE CAN FIND “Key Content: password”
STEP 15: IN PLACE OF password WE CAN FIND THE PASSWORD OF THE SAVED NETWORK.

3 comments:

  1. hi it keeps on saying present on key area- how do i go about it

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    1. run command prompt as administrator

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    2. I have the same problem, however, I am running it as Admin. Is it possibly the case that whomever controls the network has prevented us from looking at it? if so, is there a way to bypass this?

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