Comments on: Password Retreival

Question: Password Retreival

snsranch — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:27:30 -0800

So my wife brought home her little laptop from work and wants to use her wireless connect to our home wireless. No problem, her rig recognizes the network, BUT I FORGOT MY PASSWORD! Please help!!!

I'm running winXP. Is there a way to find out what my password is, or change it? BTW, I know, dumb question, I'm just kinda frustrated and not thinking right.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:29:46 -0800

The router is a D-Link DI-524, if that helps.

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:29:51 -0800

Just reset the router to the default settings. This will reset the admin password. You will have to set up the network again. You'll need your instruction manual.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:33:22 -0800

You can also get the instructions online from D-Link's website.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:35:09 -0800

Go to their website, figure out which version of their router you have and you should be able to get in and set up a new admin password, or just remove the password temporarily. There also appears to be a big ONE MINUTE ROUTER SETUP banner image at the top of the D-Link support page that might help you. This is what else the support page says

What can I do if I forgot my password?

The following reset procedure will completely restore the default settings on your D-Link device including your password. This procedure applies to the DI-514, DI-524....

Step 1 Locate the reset pinhole on the back of the unit.

Step 2 With the unit powered on, press and hold the Reset button.

Step 3 Hold the Reset button for about 10 seconds.

Step 4 Release the Reset button.

Step 5 The unit will reboot. Allow 20-30 seconds before reconnecting.

Step 6 The device is now at factory defaults.

Note: Do not recycle power during the reset procedure.

The default user name for most D-Link devices is admin and the password is left blank.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:50:30 -0800

Right on folks, thank you very much!

By: junesix

junesix — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:14:28 -0800

This being a home wireless network and all, I recommend writing the password on a piece of masking tape and sticking it to the router after you've changed it from the default.

By: freudianslipper

freudianslipper — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:29:29 -0800

possibly dumb question but did you try going to your address 192.168.0.1 and looking for the admin login info? should be pretty simple to change the password from there.

otherwise, what everybody else said.

By: A189Nut

A189Nut — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:30:13 -0800

Do you mean your WAP or WEP password or the Router password?

By: RikiTikiTavi

RikiTikiTavi — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:35:53 -0800

To amplify freudianslipper, if you know the router password but not the WAP/WEP password, you can often get it by browing to the appropriate configuration page and viewing the source (it's often just a property of the field that it's in that masks the old password).

By: bradhill

bradhill — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:24:11 -0800

There's a tool in XP SP2 to do just this. It will copy your wireless settings to a USB disk which you can plug into other XP machines (or printers, etc that support the standard) and autoconfigure them.

If you need to recover the password, you can just look at the xml files written by this process to the USB key.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/windowsconnectnow.mspx