Change Your Mac Address-- NO software needed

Spidy [spidy96]
10 years ago

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Mac Filtering is being a great problem for wifi users with secret access.

Used my nieghbour’s wifi Secretly but they just knew about an unknown computer to your

router and blocked my PC’s MAC address.and POOf!!It says Windows cannot connect to the

network!

and I just figured out Why not CHANGE MY MAC ADDRESS??

Got these steps while i was googling..

Firstly MAC address changing can be done in different ways..

  1. In cmd (Command Prompt) if you type “ipconfig /all”

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2. You can see your MAC address written as Physical address. but you might be confused with

all the different physical address!
{REMEMBER: YOU HAVE DIFFERENT MAC ADDRESS FOR EACH ADAPter(eg. Your Wifi using device (wifi

adapter) has different MAC address.and that of your LAN adapter).}SAME AS BELOW.

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  1. check your current MAC address and remind it as you are gonna see it for last.

Now open Registry editor
steps:
click WINDOWS + R and type “REGEDIT”

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Here in Registry Editor that may seem like this.

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Here the work begins!
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-

08002BE10318}.

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now you will find losts of folder like 0001,0002,0003 etc.
find your wifi adapter among them by comparing the file “DriverDesc”
like mine WIFI card is in folder 0011

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Now RIght click on the folder Which you have your Correct adapter and click “New” >>

“string value” .

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Rename it to “NetworkAddress” (without space)
and ENter YOur new MAC address in “Value data” field.

after doing that restart your pc and done!!

This is the whole tutorial… And bydway i apologize for the images and their highlighting

being rough…
HAve a NICe Day!

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[paulau]
10 years ago

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WOW such a nice tutorial
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[deleted user]
10 years ago

2

Here is another way to change the MAC Address.

Open run command (windows button + R)

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Type ncpa.cpl and press enter.

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Right click the Ethernet / Local Area Network adapter for which you want to change the MAC and then click on properties and then Click on configure

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Click on Advanced > Click on Network Address and then click on the radio button beside the empty box and then enter the MAC address without any spaces, colons or hyphens

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Click on OK to save changes

That’s it MAC address changed.

[paulau]
10 years ago

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Thank you for this another way ;)
someone had a third way? without software ^^

Spidy [spidy96]
10 years ago

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Thanks Paulau!

And tlotr as well Nice Steps but…
Some windows doesnt allow that… Like in mine…

Any way That may help others. THanks

[paulau]
10 years ago

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which windows doesn’t allow that?

[deleted user]
10 years ago

0

Yeah @spidy96

Which windows doesn’t allow that.

Only if you are on a DOMAIN with restrictions then only I think you won’t be able to change your MAC other than that you should be able to do it if you are on a WORKGROUP.

BTW which Windows Version are you using?

Spidy [spidy96]
10 years ago

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um… Mine i guess ultimate as usual…

[paulau]
10 years ago

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What? we ask you which windows , visa , seven, xp?

Max Lockhart [MaxLockhart]
10 years ago | edited 10 years ago

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Good post man. Have my +ve karma! Now for Linux users:

Take the interface you’re using down

ifconfig -a will display all interface information if you’re not sure what you’re using

ifconfig [interface] down will take your interface down

For example: ifconfig wlan0 down

Then change your address

ifconfig [interface] hw ether [new mac address]

Example: ifconfig wlan0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

Now that it’s changed, put your interface back up

ifconfig wlan0 up

Viola!

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