How to Find a Computer's MAC, IP Address Windows 7 and Vista

Hi have you ever tried to find your computer's MAC or IP address? If you still don't know how to that this tutorial will help you:

First method.

1. Go to Start>Control Panel>Network and Internet>Network and Sharing Center
2. Under "View your active networks" click on the network you are currently connected to!
3. In the pop-up window click on "Details"
4. A new window will pop-up with all the information about your internet connection including your computer MAC address "Physical Address" and your computer IP address "IPv4 Address"

Second method.

1. Click on the Windows Logo in the bottom left corner.
2. In the search box, type in cmd and press enter.

To find out your computer MAC address
1. In the command prompt, type in getmac (with no spaces) and press enter.

To find out your computer IP address
1. In the command prompt, type in ipconfig (with no spaces) and press enter.
Your computer IP address will be located at the beginning of the command adjacent to "IPv4 Address"

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To get full report about windows IP configuration: In the command prompt, type in ipconfig/all (with no spaces) and press enter.

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Why do you need to know your MAC and IP address ?

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Well for instance I know that you need to know IP and MAC address to create a MAC Filter or IP Filter that will only allow selected IP and MAC addresses to connect to your WIFI router

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To find IP address you can simply Google for "my IP address" and then visit any of the sites shown in the search result your current IP address will be shown there! Remember that if you are using dynamic IP it will change from time to time!

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