Thursday, 20 October 2016

How to obtain MAC address of Laptop/Desktop in Windows XP/7/8.1/10



A MAC address is the serial number of a network interface card(NIC). Every MAC address is unique. It also identifies the network interface card, which you have installed in your computer system.

Your MAC address with your IP address is used to provide you with the most secure service ITS can offer.

When we need to know the MAC address of the Laptop or the Desktop system, then we need to connect to a Ethernet or wireless or Bluetooth network in which MAC address authentication needed. So we should get MAC address of our laptop or desktop system. For MAC address follows these process…

How to obtain MAC address under Windows XP ?
  • Click on the “Start Menu”.
  • Click on 'Run..'
  • Type 'cmd' and press Enter to open command prompt.
  • Now type ‘ipconfig /all’ at the command prompt without quotes.
  • Now in result of above command, the physical address  is the MAC address of respective NIC(network interface card. MAC address is in 6 groups of two digits, letters or numbers, separated by dashes like as in below screen. Be sure to get the physical address of the correct NIC network interface card. Usually there are several listed.
  • You can also use ‘getmac’ command at command prompt to get MAC address

How to obtain MAC address under Windows 7/2008/Vista ?
  • First of all , open a Command Prompt (Start Menu -> Type ‘CMD’ -> Click on CMD).
  • Only type ‘getmac’ or ‘getmac /v’ in the Command Prompt window. If your computer has more than on network interface card then you used ‘getmac /v’ instead of ‘getmac’.
  • MAC address is listed as 6 groups of two hexadecimal digits separated by hyphens or dashes in the beginning of the line.

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