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How to find MAC address on a PC (Laptop)?

How to find MAC address in your PC
How to find MAC address in your PC?

A media access control address (MAC address) of a device is a unique 12-character identifier (e.g. 00-00-00-XX-00-X0) assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for communications at the data link layer of a network segment.

Every NIC has a hardware address that's known as a MAC, for Media Access Control. Where IP addresses are associated with TCP/IP (networking software), MAC addresses are linked to the hardware of network adapters.

A MAC address is given to a network adapter when it is manufactured. It is hardwired or hard-coded onto your computer's network interface card (NIC) and is unique to it. Something called the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) translates an IP address into a MAC address. The ARP is like a passport that takes data from an IP address through an actual piece of computer hardware.

If your computer has more than one network adapter (for example, an ethernet adapter and a wireless adapter), it will have a different MAC address for each adapter.

So, How to find MAC address in your PC?

To locate the Wireless Adapter MAC Address, follow these steps

1. Go to Search and type cmd, then press Enter 
Search cmd
Search cmd

or 

Press WINDOWS + R and then cmd.
Windows + R then cmd
Windows + R then cmd

2. Command Prompt will Open.
3. Then type ipconfig /all  in your command prompt
ipconfig /all
ipconfig /all

4. Now, you will find details the network related things. Here, search for "Wireless LAN adapter Wifi" as highlighted in the picture below
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi

5. From that group, look out for Physical Address as shown in the figure below (This is your MAC address.)
Physical Address is MAC Address
Physical Address is MAC Address

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  1. GUI
    for windows 10.... 1.click on wifi botton.
    2.network & internet setting.
    3.WIFI
    4.hardware properties

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