Tap or click the network icon, find your network and click Connect. If you're not connected, open the Charms bar by swiping in from the right side of the screen, or by moving your mouse into the upper right corner of the screen, and click Settings. Step 1: Make sure you're connected to your Wi-Fi network.
Here's how to find saved network passwords in Windows 8.1: Luckily, there's an easy way to reverse-lookup your Wi-Fi password on a computer that already technically knows it.
My mom is hunting for the Post-it, but prospects are lookin' bleak.
This happens to me often, especially when I'm visiting relatives' houses: My computer knows the Wi-Fi password from when I last connected to the network - two years ago - but I've completely forgotten it, though my mother is about 65 percent sure she wrote it down on a Post-it note seven months ago.Ī forgotten Wi-Fi password isn't a problem for me and my omniscient laptop, but it is a problem for, say, my brother, who needs the password if he wants to jump on the network with his Japanese iPhone.