Change MAC Address in Windows with Freeware Technetium Utility
Introduction
Do you distinguish what the MAC Address is? If you don’t, and you never dealt with its concept, you probably can skip this article altogether. It will mostly be interesting for network administration and software programming specialists. I am neither one of this sphere. But I became interested in this utility, since I am responsible for registering and compiling the licenses for customers based on the computer generated IDs. Our software engineers coded the computer ID contemporaries algorithm, based on several components, which should be unique for each computer, but should be stable enough not to cause the ID changes without serious hardware or software modifications. I started to acquire the multiple notifications on the supposedly changed computer ID, so the software requests the license to be inputted again, even thou it was already unlocked earlier. When our software engineers reviewed the outcome, they noticed that the problem is originated based on the MAC Address changes. That was quite unexpected since the MAC Address should be hard coded in the computer firmware. As return to the inquiry, I have sent the link to this software utility to them to prove, how easy it can be changed.
May be, you will find it useful and you’ll place this exciting utility in your software toolbox, as I did.
ConceptMany people believe MAC address, which is hard-coded in the NIC card cannot be changed. Yes, it’s harshly coded and it can be changed only by removing the flash chip from the NIC card, re-programming it with new MAC address, and putting it back on the card. But this software does not mutation the hard coded MAC address. Technitium MAC Address Changer just instructs Windows to use a different MAC approach devote that has been specified in the Windows registry. If no MAC address is specified to Windows, system uses the default hard-coded one in the NIC to set up Ethernet or IEEE network frames (or simply packets), which are used at OSI layer...






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