Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Finding the MAC address in Windows 8

With just a little over three weeks before it's released the new version of Star operating system Microsoft Windows 8 . There is much anticipation to see if the new commitment of the US company will be able to reissue the success of Windows 7, as it tries of the focus away from the usual desktop platform and bring it to a more appropriate setting for touch devices. Despite the changes undergone, there are many capabilities that remain similar to those of the previous version, but access can be confusing. We tell you how to find the MAC address in Windows 8.
This address is used mainly in professional environments where an additional layer of network protection is added to prevent unwanted incursions occur. In these cases it is common the need to register the address MA C device so you can connect to the network, be it a desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. This address is unique and different for each of the teams and that becomes part of your hardware. To find the MAC address in Windows 8 the command prompt (the program that opens an environment similar to MS-DOS window) is used.
One of the most obvious changes in Windows 8 is missing the start menu on the desktop (desktop platform own previous versions of Windows remains in the form of application within the main interface). Thus, access to the command prompt becomes different. You can access this program in various ways. First, if we go to the main interface of Windows 8 and press the right button at the bottom right of us the option to view all applications will appear. We press on it and then seek the application of "Command Prompt" in the group "Windows system". But we can also be accessed through the desktop if pressed on the right mouse button in the bottom corner of the screen and then "Run" or the combination of the Windows key + R. In the box we write "cmd" command .
MAC Address in Windows 8
Once inside the window of the command prompt, you type "ipconfig / all" command. If we want to register the machine in a wireless network of the company or household within the different values ​​that leave us in the list, you must access the same group "Wireless LAN Adapter" (if there is more than a similar group, we recommend trying to register the machine first with a value and then the other). In this group we find the value of "Physical Address", composed of 12 figures and numbers separated by hyphens in pairs. This is how you access the MAC address in Windows 8, in a similar way to Windows 7.
To accomplish this article we used a laptop Acer Aspire Ethos 8951G , a powerful laptop that has an Intel Core i7-2630QM processor with four processing cores and a power of 2 GHz per core. Additionally, this computer has 16 GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 2 GB of dedicated memory



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