Friday, February 20, 2015

How to find a Wireless Key for a saved network that you are not currently connected to in Windows 8.1

It's relatively easy to see the wireless key of the wireless network you are actively connected to, but say you want to pull up a key that you are NOT currently connected to?  Easy!

 - Run CMD as Administrator

 - List your WLAN profiles:
NETSH WLAN SHOW PROFILES

 - Find the wireless network you want to find the key for, then type-
NETSH WLAN SHOW PROFILES NAME="profile_name_from_step2" KEY=CLEAR

 - Under "Security Settings", the key will be displayed beside "Key Content"

Make sure you set the KEY parameter to CLEAR for the Security Key to be displayed in "CLEAR" TEXT.


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