{"id":13773,"date":"2017-10-16T15:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:36:15","slug":"how-to-quickly-find-your-wifi-network-password-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-quickly-find-your-wifi-network-password-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Quickly Find Your WiFi Network Password in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Quickly Find Your WiFi Network Password in Windows 10<\/h1>\n<p>If you get a new computer, a tablet, a smart phone, an Amazon Fire,\u00a0 a smart thermostat, a Roku player, a smart TV,\u00a0 or any internet connected device, you&#8217;re going to need to know your WiFi network password.\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re like most people , you set up your WiFi network quite a while ago and you don&#8217;t remember your WiFi password&#8230; or you wrote it down and can&#8217;t remember where you put the piece of paper you wrote it on or where on your computer you save it.<\/p>\n<p>If you get a new tablet, smart phone, streaming\u00a0 video player, etc. and you need to find your network password, we&#8217;re going to show you how to do it the quick &amp; easy way.<\/p>\n<p>Just follow these easy steps:<\/p>\n<p>Press Windows Key + i to open Settings (or open Settings from your start menu). Click on &#8220;Network &amp; Internet&#8221;. In &#8220;Network &amp; Internet&#8221; settings, look on the right side and you&#8217;ll see the following options.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/find-network-pass0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"299\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on &#8220;Change adapter options&#8221; (see above). And you&#8217;ll see the &#8220;Network Connections&#8221; dialog appear (see below):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/find-network-pass0a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"545\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right-click on the WiFi network you normally connect to (see see image above) and then click on Status in the drop-down menu (see image below) which appears:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/find-network-pass1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"430\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Wi-Fi Status dialog, click on the Wireless Properties button (see screenshot below):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/find-network-pass2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"424\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Wireless Network Properties dialog, click on the Security tab at the top (see image below):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/find-network-pass3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"426\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Wireless Network Properties Security dialog, tick the box next to &#8220;Show Characters&#8221; and your password will be shown to you unencrypted &#8211; in plain text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/find-network-pass4.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"436\" height=\"566\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all there is to it!<\/p>\n<p>You can also find your wireless network password using a command prompt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-find-your-wireless-network-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See our article here to learn how. <\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Quickly Find Your WiFi Network Password in Windows 10 If you get a new computer, a tablet, a smart phone, an Amazon Fire,\u00a0 a smart thermostat, a Roku player, a smart TV,\u00a0 or any internet connected device, you&#8217;re going to need to know your WiFi network password.\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re like most people , you set\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-quickly-find-your-wifi-network-password-in-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1433,1656,10],"tags":[1886,1885,1884,1684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}