NOTA BENE! this question is different than the one suggested, because:
1. I am not connected, this is the whole point of my question.
2. I specifically asked about the situation where the STATUS option is greyed out, as in: INACTIVE, which is not in the other question.
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I've tried this method: http://www.howtogeek.com/116934/how-to-view-that-forgotten-wireless-network-password-in-windows/ and it works okay on other machines, but on my Vista Vista Vista Vista Vista Vista HP pavillion DV2 it doesn't work because on the context menu for the Wifi connection, the status option is greyed out. so .on the third picture, there's no status there.
questions:
is there a command line method of getting this?
can i see it in the registry?
or how else do i solve this?
I should say that presumeably, the wifi is broken in a hardware/physical sense, i can make ethernet access, but now i've got a new laptop, so I want to extract the wifi password out of the old laptop. Did I mention it's a Vista OS? ========END=OF=QUESTION========
