The internal wireless on one of my laptops (an HP Pavillion dv9005us which appear to have a recall) decided to stop working sometime back.  I had already sent this thing back to have the system board replaced once before because the LAN connection lost its MAC address.  For the longest time I used a cabled connection but decided to buy a wireless card for it last weekend.  I got home and was configuring it when I realized that I had forgotten the passphrase for my wireless network.

What was I to do?!  Reset the router? I don't think so; I'm way too lazy for that.  This was a Netgear router which has this button which lets you save the current configuration file.  Is the password in there?  You bet; it's there somewhere but I was guessing that it was encrypted somehow.  Not!  I opened the file with Notepad, looked around and ended up finding it in clear text.