HOWTO Recover a stored WiFi password

Sometimes it is useful to recover a password from its Windows stored WiFi profiles.

We can do this by opening an administrative Command Prompt and typing this command to list all stored profiles:

netsh wlan show profile

Then type the following command with the proper profile name:

netsh wlan show profile name=<profile_name> key=clear

You can find it in the Security Settings section in the listed data.