How I Can Change My Mac Address Not In Common Way?

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How I Can Change My Mac Address Not In Common Way?

Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by admin in Answers

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hi dear
I have dell inspiron 6400 laptop with wireless card:Dell wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card rev 4.4 and my operating system is
windows vista home basic.
I want to change MAC address.I done following step but when I check my mac address with “ipconfig/all” in command prompt
my phisical address of wireless card DIDN’T change! please help me.
I done :
1.right click on Dell wireless wlan utility from the utility icon in the notification area and click on manage wireless
networks.
2.in manage wireless network i go to the adapter properties
3.on configure… and advanced tab I select locally administrated MAC address
3.in value text box I write correct mac address then I click ok
Excuse me for my english is bad.

Tags: Change MAC Address, MAC Address, Windows Vista

5 Responses to “How I Can Change My Mac Address Not In Common Way?”

C-Man

16. Sep, 2009

The MAC address comes from ROM on your network card- it’s like a serial number and cannot be changed without changing the card. New hardware = new MAC address.
Many routers support MAC address spoofing (broadcasting a different MAC address than your real one) and some utilities exist which allow this direcly from your machine, with no router involved. Here are a couple:

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Jose C

16. Sep, 2009

There are two ways:
1. Change a registry key, but I don’t know what the key is for Vista (and I don’t trust Vista not to go crazy if you change anything there).
2. Use a program like SMAC (link attached) that does work with all OS including Vista.http://software.techrepublic.com.com/dow…
Disclaimer: I have no financial or any other connection to this software. I just googled it.

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Danzel

16. Sep, 2009

MAC address cannot be changed it is embedded into the machine/hardware itself, MAC address is not like IP address, anyhting you try will waste your time, buddy.

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Curious7

16. Sep, 2009

just use this tool http://devices.natetrue.com/macshift/
Even if the MAC is unique to your network card, XP and for sure Vista has it stored in the registry, and just reads the original Address once in awhile.

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Marc S

16. Sep, 2009

The MAC address cannot be changed except in one circumstance …. change the network card!
The MAC address is a unique id that is stored in the chipset of the ethernet card in ROM and cannot be repeated anywhere else in the world. So the only way to change it is to change the ethernet card. Duplicate MAC addresses on the Internet is bad and can cause errors on the network.

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