How to find Password of all connected Wi-Fi networks using CMD

Windows command prompt is a great tool for the people who love command interface rather than Graphical UI(User Interface). There are a lot of features which are still not implemented in Graphical User Interface can be accessed via CMD. In this article, I am going to share how to find out the password of all connected devices using CMD along with suitable screenshots for clear understanding.

Know one thing that whenever you are connected to a Wi-Fi network and enter the password, Windows creates a WLAN profile of that Wi-Fi network. These WLAN profiles are stored in the computer and into your personal Microsoft account alongside other required details of the Wi-Fi profile.

We can uncover these WLAN profiles later by simply using Windows CMD. You can find out all the connected networks and their passwords by using simple commands. These commands can also uncover the Wi-Fi passwords of the networks which are not connected at the moment but were connected before. So it works even when you are offline or when you are connected to any other networks. The trick just has no limitations and it’s reliable enough.

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There are a lot more things you can do with CMD for Wi-Fi networks.

Steps of how to access the Wi-Fi passwords

In order to open CMD, you can click the start button (windows icon) then type… “cmd” and to the results right click and select run as an administrator.
Open the command prompt and run it as administrator

As the cmd appears you will have to type the following but without the quotes “netsh wlan show profile”





The outcomes count the above seen picture, the listed profiles are list of networks that your computer have already been connected previously.

After knowing the names of the Wi-Fi networks that you were connected with previously, you may want to know the passwords of the networks and below are the steps:

Assuming that I want to know the password of the network thunderlink…
Type this command without quotes “netsh wlan show profile name=YOURWIFINAME key=clear”





Under the Security content in the cmd we have the key content which shows the password of the network. Hope you find this tip useful because you may find that you have the network connected to one of your accessories and you want to connect another device, and this method helps since you have no need to cram passwords