How To Change Computer’s IP

Address From Command Prompt?

Are you searching for a way to change your computer’s IP address from the command
prompt? Are you a big fan of command line utility in Windows 7? Well, you can quickly
change your Computer’s IP using some simple commands. In this post, I will explain the
steps to achieve this.
As we all know, it is easy to change your computer’s IP by accessing Network
Properties in Control Panel. But the sad truth here is, you need to click-through some
different dialog boxes and windows. To make this as a simpler task, you can change the
IP address with some simple commands using Command Prompt, which is one of the
great Network utilities of Windows.

Steps To Change Computer’s IP From

Command Prompt:
Step 1: First, you need to open the command prompt with administrator privileges. Go
to Windows and type cmd in the search box. Right click on the link that appears and
select “Run As Administrator” from the context menu.
Step 2: The command prompt window will open up now with administrator privileges as
shown below.

Step 3: To view the full name of the network interface for which you wish to change the
IP address, type the following command in command prompt and hit Enter.

netsh interface ipv4 show config

You can also copy the command and paste it in Command Prompt. To paste the
command in command prompt, right-click inside the command prompt and select Paste.

Step 4: This command will list all the IPv4 network interface configurations of your
PC. Replace IPv4 with IPv6 if you wish to list the configuration of IPv6 interface.
Step 5: Locate the interface you are looking for. In this case, it is “Wireless Network
Connection“. Note down the exact name of the interface for which you are going to
change the IP address.
Step 6: Now to change the IP address, default gateway, and the subnet mask of the
selected interface, type the command given below and hit enter.

netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”YOUR INTERFACE NAME” static

IP_ADDRESS SUBNET_MASK GATEWAY

Here YOUR INTERFACE NAME specifies the exact name of the interface you noted in
step 5, IP_ADDRESSspecifies the new IP address that you wish to set for the
interface, SUBNET_MASK specifies the net mask of the selected IP range, and
the GATEWAY specifies the default gateway to the specified IP range.
For example in our case the above syntax will be,

netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”Wireless Network Connection” static

192.168.0.8 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

Step 7: If you wish to use an IP address that is assigned automatically by the DHCP
server, enter the following command.

netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”YOUR INTERFACE NAME” source=dhcp

Replace YOUR INTERFACE NAME with the exact name you got in step 5.

This will now assign the IP address automatically from the DHCP server.