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Finding your Wi-Fi passwords

Finding your Wi-Fi passwords

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Finding your Wi-Fi passwords

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- [Instructor] When your brain has lots of room, you can afford to memorize all your passwords, or you can have them filled in automatically. Or for wifi networks your laptop has previously connected to, you can rely upon Windows. Press the Windows I keyboard shortcut to bring up the Settings app, choose Network and Internet, Wifi. Now, this item doesn't appear if a desktop computer doesn't have a wifi network adapter. Manage known networks, here is a list of all the wifi networks your laptop has connected with. If you're using a desktop computer and you have the same Windows account as you have on your laptop, you can see the same list echoed here. Sharing this data is one of the benefits of using a Windows password on your computers. To modify any connection, choose it from the list. If you've neglected to choose the automatically reconnect option, here is where you can alter this decision, or you can reset the…

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