"MAC" stands for Media Access Control, and is also known as a Physical Address.
MAC ADDRESS FOR WINDOWS 8 MAC
Hope this guide is useful and helpful in overcoming any MAC address related restrictions and filtering at your network. Also, third-party tools to modify the MAC address not required. There is another method of changing it through registry modification, but when we have this simple method in control panel settings, we should not try the complicated registry changes.
MAC ADDRESS FOR WINDOWS 8 WINDOWS 10
That is the easy and simple method to change the MAC address in your Windows 10 laptop or desktop computer. Here is the changed MAC address on my Windows 10 computer. You must see the different MAC address if your change is accepted by the Operating System and network adapter driver. Now try the same “ ipconfig /all” command. Once you apply the changes, it will disconnect the network adapter and reconnect. In my case, I changed it as below (you could see that I did not change everything). Obviously, just changing one digit or letter going to make the change in the MAC address of your computer, hence do not try to change the entire format and address. Though it will not throw any error messages if you change it wrongly, it will not take effect at the end. Since it is related to the manufacture and type of the network card, completely changing the address will not work. There should be a slightly identical and the format should be maintained to match the existing address. You can’t just simply change the MAC address in Windows 10 or 8.1 for anything.As I suggested earlier, changing MAC address on a computer is mostly for temporary use only, so you may need to put back the old physical address later. I highly recommend to take a screenshot or record the actual MAC address of your Windows 10 network adapter before you change it.In my case, it was mentioned as “Locally Administrated Address”, in some other Windows 10 computers you may find as “Network Address”. Depending on the network card and driver, you may find different names. Under the ‘Advanced’ tab you will find the option to change. Right click on the network adapter you need to change, then click Configure. To change it, go to the Network connections in the Control panel, also you can right click on the network adapter from notification area and open network and connection settings. Here is the MAC address of the computer I’m demonstrating. Open the command prompt and type “ ipconfig /all”, depending on the number of network cards (like LAN port and Wi-Fi adapter) you will see the MAC address of the network adapters. To recap, here is the way to find the MAC address easily. We have earlier mentioned the way of finding the MAC address on the local and remote computer. There are plenty of ways available to change the MAC address in Windows 10 with 3 rd party tools and software, but here we are going to discuss the simple way we can do without installing any tools. Here is the way to Change the MAC Address in Windows 10 (and 8.1/7)
If someone blacklisted your device by the MAC address of your Windows 10 computer, changing the MAC address will allow you to avoid the blacklist. If any MAC filtering system or policies in place at your organization or home to control the network traffic, you can change the MAC address by the following method to bypass those restrictions. When we talk about changing the MAC address of a network device, it is about faking the Operating System of the device and telling/showing the different MAC address, called Mac Spoofing.Īs MAC address is important like IP address of the device for network communication, it can be used to control the network traffic from your device. The truth is, you can’t really change the MAC address of a device(it can be Windows 10 desktop or laptop computer, other OS computers and network devices) because it is assigned/written on the device physically while manufacturing.
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