How to Change Your Mac Address in Vista?

Question

Right now I'm on a college LAN and they take like 3 days to manually approve a computer by it's MAC address. I am approved with the MAC address that I'm on right now, but I just bought a new mother-board and my MAC address is changing VERY soon.

I would like to know how to change my mac address on the new mother-board to this one. I have already copied, pasted and e-mailed myslef this current MAC address.

Answer 1

Be cautious, spoofing a MAC address can be considered illegal, and if they run background security checks they can detect it. You could get barred totally.

Answer 2

To the best of my knowledge, the MAC address is hard-coded to the individual network node (motherboard, NIC, Wireless card, etc) and cannot be modified. The MAC address uniquely identifies the hardware by manufacturer and individual number. It cannot be changed by the user.

Answer 3

Found this on the net:



Change (Spoof) MAC Address on

Windows 2000, XP, 2003, VISTA



http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/

Answer 4

You can not change MAC address, it is built in your Network Interface Card (NIC).

Motherboards (themselves) have nothing to do with MAC. The NIC is usually built in on Motherboard.

Answer 5

Just follow the links and instructions. It works