How to Change MAC Address on Windows 10 PC

MAC address, or the Media Access Contol address unique identifier assigned to the community card to your Windows 10 computer. The MAC address with for each hardware device is precise, because if there were two devices in a community with the identical MAC address, there might be no way to inform them apart from each other. While the IP address of every device on a network is typically dynamically assigned, the MAC address is constant, and remains the identical. In truth, there is no way to change the MAC address with of your network card. However, you may idiot your operating system to broadcast a different MAC deal with to the network, successfully converting it. Here is how to change MAC address on Windows 10 devices:

Find Your MAC Address in Windows 10

Before you going to change your Windows 10 MAC address, you should first find out what your real MAC address is. This is useful, in case you make a mistake, and end up having to restore your MAC address to the default value. Just follow the steps below in order to find out the MAC address of your Windows 10 PC:

• Launch “Command Prompt“. You can do this by pressing “Windows + R“, typing “cmd”and hitting Enter.

• In the Command Prompt window, type “ipconfig /all”.
• You will see quite a lot of information about various network interfaces installed on your Windows PC. Scroll down, until you see the one that doesn’t say “Media Disconnected“. In my case, that’s “Wireless LAN Adapter WiFi“. The value next to “Physical Address” is your MAC address. Note it down.

Change MAC Address in Windows 10

Changing the MAC address in Windows 10 is easy. Just follow the steps below, in order to change the MAC address of your Windows 10 PC:

• Go to “Control Center -> Network and Sharing Center“.

• Here, click on “Adapter Settings“.

• Right-click on the adapter you need to change the MAC address for, and go to “Properties”.

• In the Properties dialog box that open up, click on “Configure”.

• Switch to the “Advanced”tab, and click on “Network Address”. Select the radio button next to “Value”, and enter the new MAC address in the text field. Once done, click on “Ok”.

Easily Change MAC Address on Windows 10 Devices

You can utilize this method to easily change the MAC address on Windows 10 devices. Changing the MAC address of a device can be useful if you’re trying to go around MAC address based blocking on a network router. However, if the router is using a white list of MAC addresses to permit access to the network, then you’ll have to ensure that you use a MAC address that is in the white list for the router. On the other hand, if the router is using a blacklist of MAC addresses, you just have to use a MAC address that’s not on that blacklist, which is easier to do.

So, have you ever had to change the MAC address on your Windows 10 PC? How did you do it? Let us know in the comments section below, along with any other methods you might know to change the MAC address in Windows 10.