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How To Find MAC Address In Windows Computer/pc by ahad9495(m): 6:13am On Jul 25, 2017

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How to Find Mac Address Of A Computer/PC

Media Access Control (MAC) address is possessed with up to 12 character (e.g ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) address. Generally MAC address assigned to every internet connected devices which identified a device when connected with a specific network connection.

There are many ways to find your Computer/PC MAC address.
Method 1: Using Command Prompt(cmd.exe)

Press Windows "START" button from keyboard or click the start menu icon from left-bottom side of desktop.

In the Start Menu type "cmd" or "cmd.exe"(Without quotes).
One program will appear in top search result with name "cmd" or "windows command processor".

Now click to "cmd" to run the Command prompt or just press the enter button.
After run the command prompt type this code in command panel: ipconfig /all
And press Enter.
This will reply with all information about your all of network connected. There is a one line with name "physical Address" which is your computer or network device MAC Address.

If there are more than one internet connection established this will show those connection information in command panel.r

There is one another command line code for get MAC Address of
your pc which is getmac /v /fo list
Which output is show the same information about your MAC Address.




Method 2: General Method
This is the easy way to find out the MAC Address of your network device or your pc.

Look at the "Network Icon" at the notification area. Click the network icon to see the list of connected networks. Then Select "Open Network and Sharing Center".
Network and Sharing center is the main location where you can view, create or modify any network connection.

Now you will see the connected network in the display panel.
If you connected with an ethernet broadband cable select the "Local Area Connection".
Select connection name to see the connection status.
In the connection status panel you will see connection type, uptime, LAN speed, And data sent and receive information.

Now click the "Details" button to see the all information about selected connection.

In the Network Connetion Details panel you will see a lot of information about your connection.
Here you will see "Physical Address" Which is your MAC Address. Generally a MAC address is combined up to six pair character. It contain BINARY, DECIMAL and HEXADECIMAL character. In the panel my physical address is "00-0B-CD-30-D4-E9" Its my device MAC Address.

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