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An IP address identifies any given device on a network. Yous might need information technology for online gaming or remote desktop computing. Your Windows x PC has an IP address, and there are a few different means you tin can find it. Here's how.

Find Your IP Accost from the Settings Card

You can find the IP address of your Windows 10 PC in the Settings menu. But instead of clicking through several levels of options to detect it, we'll use a shortcut to jump straight to it.

To the correct of the taskbar, you'll run into a group of several different icons. We want to locate the network icon. The icon design volition differ depending on whether you're connected to the internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Right-click the icon.

Network icon design when connected to Wi-Fi.
Network icon design when using an Ethernet connection.
Note: If you can't notice the icon on your taskbar, it might be hidden. Click the upward arrow to reveal a small carte du jour of hidden icons.

A listing of network connections will appear. The network that you're connected to will be at the top of this list. Find it and click "Backdrop."

The Settings window will now open, and y'all'll automatically find yourself on the settings page of your current Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection.

Gyre to the bottom of the page and find the "Properties" department. Here, you lot'll discover your IP address next to "IPv4 address."

Your IP address in the Properties section of the Wi-Fi settings window.

Notice Your IP Accost from the Command Panel

You tin also use the Control Panel to locate your IP accost. In the Windows search bar, type "Control Panel," and so click the Control Panel app from the search results.

Control Console volition open. Hither, click "Network and Internet."

On the next screen, click "Network and Sharing Eye."

Next, click "Change Adapter Settings" in the left-hand menu.

Now, depending on which connection y'all're using, double-click "Ethernet" or "Wi-Fi."

The "Wi-Fi Status" (or "Ethernet Condition") window will appear. In the "Connection" section, click "Details."

Finally, yous can find your IP address in the "Network Connectedness Details" window that appears.

IP address in the Network Connection Details window.

That'south all at that place is to information technology.

Find Your IP Address Using Command Prompt

If you lot like working with Control Prompt, good news! There'due south a unproblematic command that you can run to become your IP address.

First, open Command Prompt. To practice so, blazon "Command Prompt" in the Windows search bar and click the Command Prompt app that appears in the search results.

Control Prompt will open. Type this command and press Enter to execute it:

ipconfig

Run ipconfig from Command Prompt.

Your IP address volition be returned in the response, listed in the "IPv4 Address" line.

Your IP address in the Command Prompt response.

Using one of these methods, you lot should at present take your Windows 10 PC's IP address—but this is yourprivate IP address. Did you know that you too take a public IP address? We explain what that means and how to observe it here.

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