How to Change IP Address in Windows Vista

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to change the IP address of Microsoft Windows Vista. Let's go down here to the bottom on the Vista start bar which is this little round button, and we're going to run a command prompt. At this command prompt, to see your current IP address type "ipconfig", all one word. This will list out all of the adapters for a network that are installed on your PC, and the one that we're concerned with is the "Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection" which is this one right here. Just look down right below it as you can see the IP Version 4 address that's been assigned to us is 192.168.1.50. Inside the control panel find the "Network and Sharing Center", and this lists your current network settings and their status. What we have here is "Access Local Area Connection". To change the IP address on it let's click on "View Status", and then down here at the bottom we're going to click on "Properties". This shows you all the protocols that are installed for that adapter. The one that we're concerned with is "Internet Protocol 4", or "IP 4". Select "Internet Protocol 4" and click "Properties". It's currently selected to obtain an IP address automatically from our router, but we're wanting to change that, so click on "Use the Following IP Address". We're going to change it to 192.168.1.51. Now what we had before was 50 so we're just going to bump it up by one. The subnet mask is automatically populated as soon as you pop it into there. The default gateway is going to be the IP address of your router, which in this case is 192.168.1.1. You probably don't have your own DNS server on your network, so you want to pipe that up to your router too, 192.168.1.1. After you've got all this typed in let's just click "OK", and "Close". That will actually apply the changes that you've just made. Let's go back to our command prompt and verify that those changes have taken place. We're going to type, one more time, "ipconfig" and press "Enter". As you can see under our Local Area Connection, IP address 192.168.1.51."