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What’s the password of the WiFi I’m connected to?

This post can be applied only to the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Goal:
You are connected to a WiFi using your pc with Windows, and you need to know what is the password used to connect into the network

I know two methods to achieve this goal.

Method 1:

  • Right-click in the taskbar in the WiFi icon (marked in red in the image)
  • Click on Open Network & Internet settings
  • Click on the menu Wi-Fi
  • Click on Change adapter options
  • Right-click on your Wi-Fi adapter
  • Click on Status
  • Click the button Wireless Properties
  • Navigate to the Security tab
  • then tick Show characters checkbox to show the WiFi password in the Network security key field.

Method 2:
Open the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell and run the following command replacing “WiFiName” with the name of the WiFi network you are connected to

netsh wlan show profile name="WiFiName" key=clear | findstr Key

The Key Content will display the WiFi password in the command prompt as a result.

Note: “WiFiName” is not case sensitive but if you don’t write correctly your WiFiName no error and no result will be displayed.

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The disk is write protected

I was so happy when I noted that my printer Canon T5050 had an SD Card Reader integrated and with customer friendly access from the left bottom corner of the control panel in the front of the device.
I’ve inserted my SD card and a new icon appeared with the removable memory with assigned a new drive letter.
Perfect, I was able to read the pictures from the memory and furthermore, I’ve noted that the preview of the picture appeared in the display of the printer so that it can print without pc (“standalone” functionality).
Right now you read the best part of the story but when I tried to add a new file to my SD Card I’ve received the following error message:

I googled this error message and found a lot of different posts, some of them were suggesting to change Windows Registry Key, other to verify drivers or that the card was working, I also thought the issue was related to Windows 10 but nothing. When I tried a different SD card I understood that the issue for sure was not related to the memory card itself but rather to the card reader.
Really strange, I can read but not write.

At this point, I started navigating the user settings in the printer from the control panel in the front of it and I found that there is a setting to enable to write as well.

Solution:
First, remove the SD (this setting can be changed only with no SD inserted!)

From the control panel (in the front of the device) navigate to Settings -> Device Settings -> Device User Settings -> Read/Write Attribute
Then it will appear an information message:
“When card read/write attribute is not set to (Not writable from PC), the power cannot be turned off automatically with the auto power off setting.“
The Click OK and you will see the 2 options possible:

  • Writable from USB PC
  • Not writable from PC (this is the default value)

Select the first option “Writable from USB PC” and then insert the SD card.

Now you we will be able to write in it.

Remember the information showed before, the printer will not power off automatically and unfortunately when you will turn off the user setting will be lost so next time you will have to remember the steps above.

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