Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

- [Instructor] You're at your favorite cafe, you open your laptop, and there's no internet. The network name is the same, but the password has apparently changed. The barista informs you of the new password, and now you follow these steps on your laptop. Press the Windows + i keyboard shortcut to bring up the Settings app. Choose Network and Internet. Choose Wi-Fi on the left side of the screen. And choose Manage Known Networks on the right. Now choose the network with the new password. And click the Forget button.

Now, you reconnect to the network which is where you can type in the new password. Choose the Wi-Fi icon on the task bar and select the network from the list. This is a public network so I don't want to reconnect automatically, and I'm going to click the Connect button. And now, you type in the password. Click Next, and yes, this is a public network, so I don't want other PCs snooping around my laptop, I'll click No.

And now you're connected, well, eventually. In the future, Windows may offer some shortcut to update a wi-fi password, but for now, the process works as described in this movie. Forget the memorized network, then reconnect to update the wi-fi password.