FOLLOW THE STEPS GIVEN BELOW TO RECOVER YOUR WI-FI PASSWORD
- First of all, check that you have your wifi adapter and its drivers and support softwares installed properly.
- Run cmd as administrator.
- This can be done either by typing in the search box and right clicking the cmd and choosing the option 'Run As Administrator' or by pressing Window key + R, this combination will open a run window & type there cmd.
- This will open a cmd window.
- Type there the list of commands given below.
netsh wlan show profiles
netsh wlan show profiles <device-name>
netsh wlan show profiles <device-name> key = clear
KEY CONTENT IS THE PASSWORD
EXPLANATION
1. netsh wlan show profiles
This command shows the list of all the wifi profiles and wifi devices that your device has been connected to until now and check that the device or network whose password you have to recover is in the above list.
2. netsh wlan show profiles <device-name>
In this command replace device-name with name of network whose name is in the list in step 1 and whose password you want to recover. This will show all the details of the network whose device name you have provided in this step.
3. netsh wlan show profiles <device-name> key = clear
This command will show you a list of attributes of the device and when you scroll down to the end of the result of the command you will get something like
key : XXXXXXXXXX
This XXXXXXXXXX is the password that you want to recover.