[How] to get a WiFi password

[How] to get a WiFi password

 You’re out somewhere and you need to hop on a WiFi network with a new device. You realize you have the WiFi password saved on your laptop, but not on whatever device you’re looking to connect. And you’re either too lazy to ask for the password again, or you have no way to acquire it in your present condition.

Using WiFi allows you to get online wherever you are, without cumbersome cords getting in the way and without having to worry about staying close to the main router.

Note that this may be printed on the back of the router or may be uniquely chosen by the owner of the network, in which case you'll need to ask them for the password

You should then be connected to the WiFi network.

In addition, your Windows 10 operating system will remember every Wi-Fi network.

you   ever join, storing the login information so that you can rejoin easily without having    to re-enter a password the next time you want to use it.

When you do, and hit Enter, you’ll see the password for said WiFi network in the “Key Content” listing of the Security settings field—it should be pretty apparent.

If you’d like to try another way, you can pull up your passwords via the Windows 10 Settings app. Launch it, click on Network & Internet, scroll down a bit and click on Network and Sharing Center, click on the blue “WiFi” link next to the “Connections:” field, click on “Wireless Properties,” click on the Security tab, and select “Show characters.”

There are other utilities you can try to get your passwords in an even simpler manner, but I should note that Windows

You’ll next have to authenticate into your system as an administrator, but once you do that, the password for whatever WiFi network you typed in should appear within Terminal.