{"id":24642,"date":"2022-12-11T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=24642"},"modified":"2022-12-11T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:23:19","slug":"how-to-find-your-wireless-password-in-windows-10-or-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-find-your-wireless-password-in-windows-10-or-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to\u00a0 Find Your Wireless Password in Windows 10 or Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to\u00a0 Find Your Wireless Password in Windows 10 or Windows 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while since we covered recovering wireless network passwords. Christmas is coming soon and a lot of you will be getting a new computer, tablet, smartphone, smart thermostat, Roku player, smart TV, or another internet-connected device, and you\u2019re going to need to know what your WiFi network password is so you can set up your new device to connect to your home WiFi.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like us, you set up your wireless network quite a while ago and don\u2019t know what your WiFi password is. So, if you get a new internet-connected device and you need to know your wireless password, we\u2019re going to show you how a quick and easy way to find it in both Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

To find your wireless password in Windows 10 or 11, follow these simple steps.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Type “Network connections” in the taskbar search and press Enter when you see Network connections appear in the search results<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Network connections dialog click, on your WiFi connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Next click on Status in the drop-down menu (see image below) which appears when you right-click on your WiFi connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Wi-Fi Status dialog, click on the Wireless Properties button (see screenshot below):<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

In Wireless Network Properties, click on the Security tab at the top (see image below):<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Wireless Network Properties Security dialog, tick the box next to \u201cShow Characters\u201d and your password will be shown to you unencrypted \u2013 in plain text.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all there is to it!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How to\u00a0 Find Your Wireless Password in Windows 10 or Windows 11 It\u2019s been a while since we covered recovering wireless network passwords. Christmas is coming soon and a lot of you will be getting a new computer, tablet, smartphone, smart thermostat, Roku player, smart TV, or another internet-connected device, and you\u2019re going to need to\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1433,2145,3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642"}],"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=24642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24646,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions\/24646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}