[How to ] Recover WiFi Password

 WiFi Password Dump

 

Our Windows operating system uses its built-in ‘Wireless Configuration Manager‘ which helps in managing your Wireless connections. Depending up on operating system Wireless Configuration Manager uses different techniques and different locations to save the WiFi passwords. According to an article by securityxploded.com the location for Windows XP or Server 2003 you’ll find the password in the following location.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters\Interfaces\{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}

Each GUID represents different wireless devices and is stored under a value called ActiveSettings. Windows used its own technology called Windows Cryptography for encryption. And for Windows Vista, 7 & 8 you’ll find the configuration below:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces\{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}\{Random-GUID}.xml

WiFi Password Decryptor

 

Here you find all the list of passwords saved by your Wireless Configuration Manager on your Windows. Just right-click, and click on Copy to get the password. You can even export to an HTML, Text or XML format. Remember it will only recover the password if you have already saved the password in Windows. If you forgot the WiFi password even before entering it in Windows, then you may need to find other tools that will recover the password from directly from your router.