How to Find Your Computer IP Address (Windows)

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Michael Burton, with michaelburtonfilms.org, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we're here talking about how to use Microsoft Windows. What I want to talk to you about now is how to find the IP address of your computer. It's not tricky. It's just you gotta' be be careful if you have a router or not. I mean, I explain that to you right now. Let me start out by saying that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft, and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. Okay, how you find your IP address for your computer. The best way to do this is to go down to your Start menu. You're going to bring up your menu and you're going to go to run, okay, and you're going to type in, which I already have in here, CMD. So let's just retype that, CMD, and then you're going to hit enter. What this does is bring up a DOS window, and in the DOS window you're going to want to type in your IP CONFIG. That's going to give you your IP configuration. Now, being that I have my computer hooked up to a home router or network this is going to give me the IP address once I hit enter, as you can see of of my actual router, which is 192.168.0.1, and the sudden and default gateway of my Internet. This is this is my IP address for my router. It does not show me the IP address of my actual computer. Now, if you're not hooked up to a router, that will give you the IP address of your computer. The best way to find the IP address of your computer then if you are, if you are connected to a router is there's a website, and if we bring up our Internet Explorer here we'll let this load, and then what we're going to do is we're going to go to www.whatismyip.com. Now once we hit enter and it takes us to this website, it automatically shows us right here our IP address. Your IP address is this. So, it'll automatically show you your IP address for for your computer. Those are the two simplest ways to find your IP address. Again, if you have a router, I would go to whatisyourip, whatismyip.com, and that will give you your IP address."