Write it down - or don't you can always just look it up again. Once its disabled, go ahead and right-click again and then choose Enable. Select your wireless network from the list - in this example weve called the network Zen Wifi. You can see it in the second screenshot above this paragraph. Again, open Network and Sharing Center and then click on the Change adapter settings link at the left. Check the box next to Show characters and voila - there's your Wi-Fi password! Read my previous post on how to boot Windows 8 into safe mode. Tap or click the Security tab and you will see your Network security key displayed as a series of black dots.

Click your Wi-Fi network and a Wi-Fi Status window will pop up. Step 4: Next to the word Connections, you should see a Wi-Fi icon and the name of your Wi-Fi network. Step 3: Under Network and Internet, click View network status and tasks. Step 2: From the desktop, open the Charms bar, click Settings and then open the Control Panel.

The software is not totally free, as the installer comes packed with adware. First off, be really careful during setup. Your PC should connect to your Wi-Fi network automatically, with the saved (but forgotten) password. Fortunately, Virtual Router Plus, a free utility that adds WiFi hotspot capabilities to Windows 8, is a much easier alternative to setting up a hotspot through the command prompt. Tap or click the network icon, find your network and click Connect.

If you're not connected, open the Charms bar by swiping in from the right side of the screen, or by moving your mouse into the upper right corner of the screen, and click Settings. Step 1: Make sure you're connected to your Wi-Fi network. Here's how to find saved network passwords in Windows 8.1: Luckily, there's an easy way to reverse-lookup your Wi-Fi password on a computer that already technically knows it. My mom is hunting for the Post-it, but prospects are lookin' bleak. This happens to me often, especially when I'm visiting relatives' houses: My computer knows the Wi-Fi password from when I last connected to the network - two years ago - but I've completely forgotten it, though my mother is about 65 percent sure she wrote it down on a Post-it note seven months ago.Ī forgotten Wi-Fi password isn't a problem for me and my omniscient laptop, but it is a problem for, say, my brother, who needs the password if he wants to jump on the network with his Japanese iPhone.

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