Learn how to change the IP Address of your Windows Vista computer.
- Click the Start orb, and then select Control Panel.
- Make sure you’re in Classic View by clicking Classic View on the left of the Control Panel.
- Open Network and Sharing Center.
- Click Manage Network Connections on the left side of Network and Sharing Center.
- Double-click the network connection you want to change the IP address of.
- Click Properties.
- Double-click Internet Protocol Version 4.
- By default a network connection is set to automatically obtain an IP address from another computer.
Select Use the following IP address and then enter the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and the preferred and alternate DNS IP addresses.
- Click OK in the Internet Protocol 4 window.
- Click OK in the Network Connection Properties window.
- Click Close in the Network Connection Status window.
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hey i cant read the …Select Use the following IP address and then enter the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and the preferred and alternate DNS IP addresses. too small,,,,can you email me the numbers please?
You have to give it an ip address, subnet mask, so on…
what is a subnet? everytime i try to change it it says that its wrong? what should i put in?
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork
ok i got ne numbers by zoomin on the page,,,,changed them,,,,followed all the steps……..and it didnt work!!! how come i cant access the internet? i had to put auto ip nd dns server as it was
i accidently ip banned my self in my chat site lol so i need a new ip to get in
You probably banned your public ip (ip of your modem or router), not your private ip (the ip of your computer). I can’t help you change your public ip. That’s up to your internet provider.
ok thx man,,,,,,wot i was tryin to do all this time,,,,,,thanks tho
Where do I find my preferred and alternate dns server ips?
Before you change your IP address, open the command prompt and type ipconfig /all. The DNS IPs will be listed there.
If I’m wanting to change the IP address of my computer, is there a specific “new” IP that I have to enter when doing this? This process doesn’t want to work for me.
@Shauns: Open the command prompt and type ipconfig /all and tell me what is your current IP address, subnet mask, and DNS IPs.
i tried this and it didnt work… what should i do.?.?.?…???>??
it doesnt work when i try to change it, it says the subnet mask needs to be contiguous. what do i do?!?
I have try this way on window vista.. But when i click ok to change my ip address , my wireless have loss .. so i cant change my ip address to have a vireless .. Please help me .. mail: s.hakim96@yahoo.com.my …
“By Shauns on January 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
If I’m wanting to change the IP address of my computer, is there a specific “new” IP that I have to enter when doing this? This process doesn’t want to work for me.”
Hey I had the exact same question, because I tried just putting in a random ip address but it didn’t want to connect to the internet. Someone email me if you can thanks!
It’s a little more complicated than just putting in a random number.
ya i got banned from this game and doing what you showed me still didnt let me get on
how am i suppose to change the ip so i can sign on :O
You need to change your public IP address. That’s something you don’t have control of unless you pay for a static IP.
I got IP banned from a game server. Is there anyway to get around this?
If you’re on a residential Internet connection, you’ll have to wait until your public IP address changes. This could take hours, days, or even a month.
If you have a business Internet connection with a static IP address, you’ll have to get with your ISP to change it.
hey when i type ipconfig all it wont show me the dns ip =[
Man this used to be so easy to easy on Windows XP I’m thinking about going back to XP because Vista is a lot of problems too many problems
hey thx for help but when i change ip it just dont works after :S i got a modem .
so where do i get an alternate ip as well as all those other addresses if i cant just make them up?
Thank you so much, I switched my IP to dynamic the other day because we had internet problems and that seemed to fix it, but it ended up screwing up our network and I couldn’t figure out how I changed it in the first place (I am no computer whiz obviously!) I did so many searches and came up with all the wrong tutorials, or ones that only applied to XP or older versions of Windows, or forums where someone asks “how do I do this?” and rather than give a simple explanation as you’ve done here, they ask “why do you want to do that, what kind of connection do you have blah blah blah” who cares, just tell me how to do what I’m asking!! Phew, you just saved me after about an hour of fruitless searching, thank you thank you thank you!!!
thank’s. it was great! i printed this page for a friend and she resolved her problem in a second!
I am not sure about this, but I think since I routed my DNS through OpenDNS they change my public IP anyway. I switched to OpenDNS to get faster service rather then rely on my ISP’s DNS server.
I might be wrong and it only changes my computer’s Ip and not the public. But something else some might want to know about is that your MAC address can also leave a footprint as well, you CAN change that yourself to just about anything you want, or it at least worked for me on a Vista OS.
When I change it, it won’t connect to the internet. What should I change it to?