Find out the password for wifi windows 7. How to find out the password for your Wi-Fi in several ways. Video: Accessing your Wi-Fi password through Network and Sharing Center

As statistics show, most of us set up once Wi-Fi hotspot and having connected their devices to it, they forget the password to the Wi-Fi network. So what to do if you forgot the password to your Wi-Fi access point?

If you have forgotten your Wi-Fi password, there are several options to solve this problem:

Option #1– Go to the router settings and look at the password in the settings, but for this you need the password from the router

Option No. 2– if you don’t remember the password to the router, you will have to reset the router settings and configure it again

Option #3– but if you have a computer with operating system Windows 7 or Windows 8 already connected to this Wi-Fi network - that is, an easier and faster way. We will talk about it in that article.

Find out the password for the WiFi network in Windows 7.

If your computer is running Windows 7, then go to (Start > Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center and shared access) and in the menu on the left side of the window, select the menu item “Manage wireless networks”

A window will open with a list of all wireless networks to which you have ever connected. Select the network from which you want to find out the password and double-click on its icon with the left mouse button. A window will open "Wireless Network Properties":

Select a tab "Safety". The last field on this tab is called "Key network security», it contains the password for the Wi-Fi network. But by default, it is displayed in a closed form; in order to see the password you will need to tick the box “Display entered characters”. Now you have found out the password for your Wi-Fi network.

Since the punt was removed in Windows 7 SP1 Wireless Network Management I decided to indicate another alternative path to the window "Wireless Network Properties": In the lower right corner of the taskbar near the clock, click on the network icon and select "Network and Sharing Center".

A familiar window will open "Network and Sharing Center", only this time in the left menu we will select the item "Change adapter settings"

In the window that opens, select the icon of your wireless network and right-click on it, in the submenu that opens, click on the item "State", in the next window "Wireless Network Properties" Well, then, as in the first option, select the tab "Safety" and put a tick “Display entered characters”

Note. To display the network security key, you will need administrator rights.

How to find out the WiFi password in Windows 8.

To know WiFi password in Windows 8 even easier than in Windows 7. Move the mouse cursor to the upper right corner of the screen. A menu will open, in it you need to select the item Options:

In the lower left corner we find the icon Net. We click on it. A list of wireless networks will open. Select the network you need and right-click on it. If you have a tablet with Windows 8, you just need to click on the network and hold it. The wireless network menu will open:

Select an item View connection properties. The same window will open as in Windows 7:

Go to the tab Safety. Check the box Display entered characters. This is the password for your Wi-Fi network.

How to find out the password in Windows 7

In order to view the Wi-Fi password in Windows 7, you need to click on the wireless network icon located on the taskbar in the right corner, next to the date and time indicator. Then you should go to "Network and Sharing Center". The next thing you need to do is select the “Manage wireless networks” column in this window. After this you need to go to "Properties" your Wi-Fi connection. To do this, select it in the window that opens and right-click (right mouse button), and then select the appropriate item. In the new window you need to select the column "Safety", in which you should check the “Display entered characters” option. After this, you will be able to see your own password in the password line (Security Key).

How to find out the password in Windows 8

For a person who has forgotten the Wi-Fi password in Windows 8, finding it is not particularly difficult. To do this, you just need to move the mouse cursor from bottom to top from the bottom right corner of the screen. In the tab that appears, select the item "Options". Next, you should click on the icon "Net". After this, the user will have access to a list of wireless networks; he will need to select the one that is connected. You should open it by right-clicking on it. This will take you to the wireless network menu. Then you need to select the column "View connection properties". Following this, a window will open in which you will need to open the item "Safety". In this section, check the “Display entered characters” option. These steps will help a person who has forgotten his Windows 8 password to easily view it.

How to view in Windows XP

What should you do if you forgot your Wi-Fi security key on a computer running Windows XP? To do this you need to go to "Start" and click on the column "Control Panel". Then, you should select the item in the window that opens "Wireless Network Wizard". After this, in the new window you need to click on “Next”. Following this, you need to mark the line "Add new computers and devices". Next you need to do the following: select manual installation(creating a wireless network), click “Next” and when completed, click on the graph "Print network settings". After this, the Notepad utility will open, in which you can view the Wi-Fi security key. in this case, the password will be located after the inscription “Network keys (WEP/WPA key)”. It is necessary to remember that this method, in case you have forgotten the password for the Wi-Fi network on Windows XP, can only be used if you have a previously connected wireless network to the computer. If the network was installed using a network cable, then doing this makes no sense, since Notepad will not contain forgotten password. In this case, information about it should be found in the router settings.

Where to find the password in the router settings

If a person has forgotten the password for a Wi-Fi network, he can always find the necessary information about it in the router settings. However, in this case the question arises - How to enter the router settings if the password is forgotten? In this case, you won’t have to do anything complicated. It is enough to perform only a number of the following steps.

You need to connect the router to your computer using a network cable, which is usually included with the device itself. After connecting the router, you need to enter the value in the browser address bar "192.168.1.1." . Next, you should specify a name and password to access the settings. The default is "admin" (this is both a login and a password at the same time). After entering the data, you must click on the column "Wireless" and go to the tab "Wireless Security". In the updated window you need to find the column "PSK Password:" . Opposite it will be the saved password.

What to do if nothing helps?

If the data has not been changed, as previously written, you should try the password and login “admin” to enter the settings Wi-Fi router. This is usually standard data for many models. If you can't log in, the next thing to do is look for the initialization data on the device itself.
The only thing left to do if you forgot your password, and none of the above methods can be used to view it, is to reset the router settings. For this it is necessary.

In this video we'll talk not about hacking an access point, but about how to extract a password from an already authorized client computer. But first, let’s figure out in what situation we might need this. Personally, I had this need in the following cases:

When you come to a friend’s house and need to connect to Wifi, but the person doesn’t know the password, since he entered it once and there was no longer a need to remember it;

Once they simply asked me to pull out the Wifi password from the laptop;

And also, there was a need to transfer all wireless connections, with which the user previously worked, to the new operating system. So that after reinstallation, the laptop will automatically connect to access points and the user will not have to re-enter passwords.

We will pull passwords out of operating rooms Windows systems XP, 7 and 8. And here we will have two methods, this is pulling out the password for the network to which this moment a connection has been made, and from networks to which a connection was previously made, but is not currently active.

Let's start with Windows 7, since it is in 7 that this process most simplified:

Password for the connected network (Network and Sharing Center\Changing adapter settings\Wifi adapter connected to the network\RMB\Status\Wireless network properties\Security\Display entered characters)

Passwords for all Wifi network profiles ( Network and Sharing Center\Wireless Network Management, I have one profile specified, but there may be several of them, depending on how many networks the connection was made to \Wireless Properties\Security\Display characters you type). Thus, we can find out the password for the network to which we connected at least once with of this device and if it has not been changed, then we can also connect to this network.

Again, if you do not have administrator rights, then when you check the “Display entered characters” checkbox, you will be prompted for the administrator password. If the password is not known, then you can add the current user to the administrators group, I talked about this in one of my previous videos.

In Windows 8, the process for retrieving the password is:

For an active connection it is similar ( Network and Sharing Center\Change adapter settings\ Wifi adapter connected to the network \ RMB \ Status \ Wireless network properties \ Security \ Display entered characters)

However, there is no Wireless Network Management snap-in, and therefore we cannot view the profiles of wireless connections to which we have previously connected. But this can be done through command line (Win+R\cmd\netshwlanshowprofiles– all profiles are displayed \ netshwlanshowprofilesname=”sys-team-admin"key=clear- displays information about the required profile, including the security key). This is quite confusing, so we will use special program, but more on that later.

As for Windows XP, the key in clear form is not displayed here at all (Start\Settings\ Network connections\ Wireless network connection\ RMB \ Properties \ Wireless networks \ Network profile \ Properties \ Connections).

And in this situation, the WirelessKeyView program will help us, which pulls out all the data we need from the registry (http://www.nirsoft.net \ Password Tools \ WirelessKeyView \ can be downloaded for a 32 or 64 bit system, as well as a crack). Some antiviruses can count the program as a virus, or rather as a hacking tool, and in fact it is so, since it pulls out hidden data, but in any case, it will not harm your system!

After launching the program, all wireless network profiles appear, as well as the key to access points. In its usual form, the key is not displayed, but this is unique to XP; in any case, you can enter the displayed key, it will also work. This program works in XP, 7 and 8.

Also, thanks to this program, we can easily and simply transfer connection profiles to another computer; I had this need when I needed to reinstall Windows on a laptop. And so that the user would not notice any changes when working with familiar access points, it was decided to simply transfer the profiles to the new system!

We select the profiles that interest us by holding Ctrl, or select all ( Ctrl+A\File\Export selected items\wlan\Save)

Let's try to transfer the profiles to Windows 7, but first we'll delete all the profiles to check whether automatic connection to the transferred profiles will occur (Disconnect from the access point\Network and Sharing Center\Manage wireless networks\Delete).

Importing saved profiles ( File\Import keys from export file\wlan\Open) and as you can see, the adapter automatically connected to the Wifi network. In general, thanks to this program we can find out the password for both the access point and copy connection profiles!

Most users, having entered the wireless network key on the router, remember it when they need to connect a new device. In this article, we will take a closer look at where to find the Wi-Fi password and, if necessary, change it.

Description of the problem

Often we don’t think about saving the password after entering it in the router settings for the first time. Each of us asks the question: how to find out the Wi-Fi password when there is a need to connect a new device to a wireless network.

Search methods

You can recover your password if a PC or laptop is connected to the wireless network. Next, we'll figure out how to do this.

Using computer network settings

Let's look at a way to recover a password on a computer with the Windows 7 operating system. It is also relevant for systems: Windows 8, 8.1, 10 - the only difference is in the display of the Network Control Center. To do this you need:

1. On a computer connected to the Internet, click on the picture of a working network, which is located in the lower right corner of the desktop. LMB-click on it and select “Network and Sharing Center”.
2. In the window that appears, from the proposed options, select the item “Manage wireless networks” and click on it with LMB.
   
   
3. In the window that appears, you need to select the shortcut labeled “Wireless network connection” or the name of your provider and right-click on it, select “Properties” from the suggested items.
   
4. Next, you need to go to the “Security” tab. In the line “Network security key” the text will be hidden; you need to check the box “Display entered characters”. Your password will be displayed, you can copy it to the clipboard and save it in text document or write it down in a notepad.
   

Using router settings

Advice! The IP address, login and password for opening network settings can be found on the back of the router.

The second method is to use a router, namely finding the password in the configuration settings. Let's look at the example of the TP-LINK router; to do this, we will do the following:

You can also change the password to a more convenient one by entering a new key in the “Wireless Network Password” field. After this, be sure to save the changes. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments.

I'll show you how to quickly find out the password for your Wi-Fi. There's nothing wrong with forgetting it. This situation very often occurs among ordinary users. Finding a way out of it is very easy, especially if you are connected to Wi-Fi from any device. Even if you do not have access from devices, you can still find out this information.

I will demonstrate 5 ways to find out:

1. When connected to Wi-Fi.
2. When disabled.
3. In the router settings.
4. Using the program.
5. On an Android mobile device.

The password cannot be found out only if you have changed and forgotten the authorization data in the router settings and you do not have devices that have connected to your Wi-Fi at least once. In this case, you will have to make the settings again.

All actions require administrator rights.

Find out the password in Windows 7, 8 on your computer

If Wi-Fi is connected

On the right and bottom, in the corner of the desktop, find the icon like in the image below and click on it. Then highlight your network ( inscription connected). Go to its properties in context menu.

By selecting the “Security” tab, enable the display of input icons and the asterisks will be replaced. The network security key string is the password.

If there is no icon, then right-click on an empty space in the lower right panel, then select “Customize notification icons” from the list. Then select “Show icon and notifications” as in the image below.

If Wi-Fi is disabled

This method will work if you have logged into Wi-Fi from the device at least once. The fact is that Windows remembers the Wi-Fi that you logged into. This is made for automatic login, so as not to enter data every time.

To see them, go to Start >> Control Panel. Select browse by category and go to the network and internet.

Then go to Network and Sharing Center.

Then go to manage wireless networks.

All networks that you have logged into will be displayed here. Select the one you need and go to properties in the context menu.

Go to the security tab and check the box “Display input icons” as shown below. This is the Wi-Fi password.

Instead of these steps, you can use the program. More on this below.

Find out the password using the program

The most popular and convenient program for this is WirelessKeyView. Download it from the official website and. No installation required. Just run the downloaded file.

The antivirus can detect the threat. This is because the program accesses passwords. So turn it off for now.

After launch, a window will appear in which the password will be displayed ( in the right column).

If the methods above do not suit you, then there is a universal solution. View the password in the router interface.

Find out the password through the router

Go to settings.

If Wi-Fi is not connected, then connect the router to the computer via a network cable; it is almost always included in the kit.

To do this, enter the IP address in the browser line. You can see it on the box itself, usually located at the bottom. I'll show an example on D-link.

1. Login: admin
2. Password: admin

If during the initial setup this data was changed and you do not remember it, then in this case only resetting the settings will help.

Then go to Wi-Fi >> Security. Here you will see the PSK encryption key. This is your Wi-Fi password. It may be different for you, since everyone’s device is different, but the actions are similar. Look for similar items.

Find out the password on Android mobile devices

This method is suitable for both phones and tablets. The main condition is that you log into Wi-Fi at least once.

You will need superuser rights ( root). There is no way without this.

If you have them, then follow these steps:

1. You can download a special application that will show the password ( for example, WiFi Key Recovery). Do this and run it.
2. You can view it through file manager (for example, total commander). Open it and follow the path /data/misc/wifi and in this folder find the file wpa_supplicant.conf. Open it with a text editor ( for example QuickEdit) and there find the line with the value psk. This is the network password.

If something doesn’t work out, ask a question in the comments.

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