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WiFi Password Recovery

If we forget WiFi password, we may be able to recover password from the history.

Windows

Open Command Prompt as Administrator and then execute the following commands:

# Show all network names you've accessed and saved
netsh wlan show profile

# Show the details of the specific network including password
netsh wlan show profile name="network-name" key=clear

Linux

ls -al /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/example.nmconnection