You can find the password in the Security settings section next to Key Content. Notice that you only need the quotation marks for the connection name (profile name) when the name contains a blank. The syntax of the command looks like this: netsh wlan show profile name="ConnectionName" key=clearįinding WiFi password on the command line with netsh This method allows you to find not only the WiFi password of your current connection but also that of previous connections. If you are more the type-type type, you will prefer the netsh command anyway. Find WiFi password of previous connections ^ Doing so takes a few more clicks than in Windows 8, but you won’t have to do this often. You now see the WiFi password of your current connection. Click the Security tab and then check Show characters.In the WiFi Status dialog, click Wireless Properties.Right-click the WiFi symbol in the systray and select Open Network and Sharing Center.View WiFi password of current connection ^ You’ll find one way in the Network and Sharing Center for your current connection, and you can also use the netsh command to view the connection properties of previous WiFi connections. However, in Windows 8.1, two other ways exist to access the WiFi password.
View connection properties option: no longer available in Windows 8.1 For some reason, Microsoft removed this feature in Windows 8.1. In Windows 8, you could just click the WiFi icon on the systray and right-click the WiFi connection to access the View connection properties dialog. Thus, you will find yourself again bothering the person who is managing the WiFi password. Unfortunately, this means Windows will also forget the password.
The problem here is the lack of a proper driver which makes the network card work like it should.Īs long that is missing, these tablets will just not work as the should.As I explained before, whenever you can’t connect to a WiFi network that previously worked, a good start is to tell Windows to forget the WiFi connection (right-click the connection). It is not quite clear why some people seem to find them beneficial.Īs suggested before: it may only be a temporary cure, if any.ĭont get get me wrong, Id love them to work, and tried them all, but they dont. Maybe it is a placebo effect Conclusion: you cant trust Dell. Pin pricks like this are bad PR but they hurt less than recalling thousands of devices that would be hard to fix.Īt the first mention of this solution Ive tried this but it hasnt made any difference.įrom what Ive read this applies to most people, but somehow there are a few who seem to benefit from it. I will never by another Dell product, and have urged my 600 FB friends to do the same. There is not enough stir on forums and social media, so they think they can get away with it, and by the looks of it they can.
They have probably discovered that there is a flaw that software by itself cant fix.Ī recall of all devices is something they want to avoid, so they just pretend the there is no issue. The closest they came to admitting there was an issue was in the beginning of this thread, when a new driver was announced.Īll future driver updates never solved the issue and Dell stopped showing up in this thread. They refuse to acknowledge this, keep selling the device and dont provide a solution.
They created a product with a defective network card or drivers that are unable to make it work properly. Windows 8 Not Connecting To Wifi Drivers That Are Weird, these updates were from June, I didnt have problems until December. I ended up going into Windows Device Manager in Control Panel and disabled and then re-enable the wireless adapter. Please follow these steps and dont listen to Dell technician ( they don t know anything). Has anyone else had this problem, and, more importantly, does anyone have a solution Thanks in advance. So I plugged in the USB cable that it comes with, the one for the charger, and my PC doesnt pick up that anything is even plugged in to it. I find this driver the Dell website, and planned to just download it onto my PC and then transfer it over to my Venue(since obviously I couldnt download it straight to my tablet without WIFI). Windows 8 Not Connecting To Wifi Download It Onto The problem surfaced well over a year ago, so Dell had plenty of time to come up with a driver.Īfter doing a bit of trouble shooting, I came up with this message The Dell Wireless 1538 802.11 agn Adapter adapter is experiencing driver- or hardware- related problems.
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