Sunday, October 02, 2011

Changing MAC address on wireless interface windows 7

Run "getmac" in a command prompt window and note the output.  You should do this so you can verify that this procedure actually changes the MAC address of your wireless interface.

Next Open "Control Panel > Network and Internet"
You should see a window that looks like this :






Next click on the "Network and Sharing Center" link.  It might take a while for the window to appear.  When it does appear click on the "Change adapter settings" on the left side of the window.  Then you should see a window like this:


Next right click the "Wireless Network Connection" and choose "Properties" then click the "Configure" button.  Then click on the "Advanced" tab and then highlight the "Network Address" property.  Next click on the 'Value' radio button and enter a value into the text field.  Just type numbers (e.g. 123456789012).

Now back in your command window run the getmac command again and verify that MAC address has in deed changed.  If it didn't change try entering another value for the MAC address.

4 comments:

  1. Also it might be a good idea to clear the log where you local mac address get recorded.

    Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > WLAN-AutoCofig > Operational

    Clear it and Disable it!

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  2. While you're at it you might just want to clear and disable all logs.

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  3. It is very easy to change mac address using the tool Windows 7 Mac Address change it does so by changing the registry value of your registry.

    Thanks
    Silvester Norman

    Changing MAC Address

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