How to get the Forgetten password of netsh wlan hostednetwork

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Prabhat Yadav picture Prabhat Yadav · Mar 10, 2016 · Viewed 28k times · Source

I have created a hostednetwork using the netsh wlan set hostednetwork command and i am able to connect it with my device. now i want to connect my new phone with this hostednetwork but i did not remember the password what i have been set.

I can set new hosted network and connect both of my device with that network. but i am curious to know

  1. Is their any way to know what password i set ?
  2. Can i reset password of hostednetwork ?

Answer

Frank picture Frank · Oct 14, 2016

to display the password you used on your hosted network, type the command below on windows command line:

netsh wlan show hostednetwork setting=security

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