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An IP address identifies whatever given device on a network. You might need it for online gaming or remote desktop calculating. Your Windows ten PC has an IP address, and there are a few different ways you tin observe it. Here'south how.

Find Your IP Address from the Settings Menu

You tin find the IP accost of your Windows 10 PC in the Settings carte du jour. Only instead of clicking through several levels of options to find it, we'll use a shortcut to spring direct to information technology.

To the right of the taskbar, you'll see a group of several different icons. Nosotros want to locate the network icon. The icon design will differ depending on whether yous're continued to the internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Correct-click the icon.

Network icon design when connected to Wi-Fi.
Network icon blueprint when using an Ethernet connection.
Annotation: If y'all can't detect the icon on your taskbar, it might exist hidden. Click the up arrow to reveal a pocket-size menu of hidden icons.

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

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

Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the "Properties" section. Here, you'll find your IP address next to "IPv4 address."

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

Find Your IP Address from the Control Panel

You can also use the Control Panel to locate your IP address. In the Windows search bar, type "Control Panel," and and then click the Control Console app from the search results.

Control Panel volition open up. Here, click "Network and Cyberspace."

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

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

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

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

Finally, you tin find your IP accost 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.

Notice Your IP Address Using Command Prompt

If y'all like working with Command Prompt, proficient news! There'southward a simple command that you can run to get your IP address.

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

Control Prompt volition open. Blazon this command and printing Enter to execute it:

ipconfig

Run ipconfig from Command Prompt.

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

Your IP address in the Command Prompt response.

Using ane of these methods, you should now have your Windows x PC's IP address—but this is yourprivate IP accost. Did yous know that you also have a public IP address? We explain what that means and how to notice it hither.

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