How to Find MAC Address on Windows 10 (4 Methods)

Users and sysadmins have various reasons for viewing the MAC address of a network card. Whatever your reason, use one of the 4 methods below.

Option 1: View MAC Address From the Network and Sharing Center

To use this method to find MAC address:

• Press Windows logo + R key to open Run Command.

• At Run command, type Control Panel. Then click OK.

• When Control Panel opens, click Network and Internet.

• Then click Network and Sharing Center. Finally, click Change adapter settings (see the second image below)..

• All Network cards on your computer will be listed. To check the MAC address for an adapter, double-click to open its status.

• Then click Details…

• The MAC address is listed as Physical Address.

Option 2: View MAC Address From the Network Status App

You can also find MAC address with Network Status App.

Here is how…

• Type Network Status in the search bar. Then open Network Status System settings..

• When Network status opens, click Change connection properties.

• Finally, scroll down to Properties. The MAC address is displayed as part of the Adapter properties.

Option 3: View MAC Address with Command Prompt

Here are the steps to find MAC address with command prompt:

• Open Command Prompt. Then type one of the commands below:

IPCONFIG /all

GetMAC

The first command lists a number of information about the network adapters in your PC. The Physical Address (MAC Address) of each adapter is included. See the image below.

The GetMAC command provides a more easy-to-read information. It displays just the Physical (MAC) addresses of the Adapters in your PC.

Option 4: View MAC Address with PowerShell

This guide will not be complete without discussing how to find MAC address with PowerShell!

It is very straightforward. Here are the steps:

• Open PowerShell (type it into search). Then click to open Windows PowerShell.

• At Windows PowerShell command prompt, type this command. Then press enter..

Get-NetAdapter

The command will return a number of information about all network adapters on your PC. The information includes the MAC address of each adapter.

• If you wish to display just the MAC addresses, use the command below…

(Get-NetAdapter).MacAddress

• Better still, you could display the name and MAC address of all adapters with this command…

Get-NetAdapter | Select-Object Name, MacAddress

Here are the results of the commands..

You should be able to find MAC address with one of the 4 methods discussed in this guide.

Conclusion

The guide covered 2 GUI methods – Network and Sharing Center and Windows 10 Network Status App. It also covered two command line options – with CMD (IPCONFIG /all and GetMAC) and PowerShell Get-NetAdapter Cmdlet.

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