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An IP accost identifies any given device on a network. You might need information technology for online gaming or remote desktop computing. Your Windows 10 PC has an IP address, and in that location are a few different ways you can find it. Here's how.

Find Your IP Address from the Settings Menu

Y'all tin find the IP address of your Windows 10 PC in the Settings menu. But instead of clicking through several levels of options to discover it, we'll use a shortcut to spring directly to it.

To the correct of the taskbar, you'll run across a group of several different icons. Nosotros want to locate the network icon. The icon blueprint will differ depending on whether you lot're connected to the net 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.
Annotation: If you lot can't discover the icon on your taskbar, it might be hidden. Click the up arrow to reveal a small menu of subconscious icons.

A list of network connections will appear. The network that you're continued to will exist at the summit of this list. Notice it and click "Properties."

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

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

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

Detect Your IP Address from the Control Panel

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

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

On the side by side screen, click "Network and Sharing Middle."

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

At present, depending on which connectedness you're using, double-click "Ethernet" or "Wi-Fi."

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

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

IP address in the Network Connection Details window.

That'southward all there is to information technology.

Find Your IP Address Using Command Prompt

If you like working with Command Prompt, good news! There's a simple control that y'all can run to become your IP address.

Get-go, open Command Prompt. To practice and then, type "Command Prompt" in the Windows search bar and click the Control Prompt app that appears in the search results.

Command Prompt will open. Blazon 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, yous should now have your Windows 10 PC'southward IP address—just this is yourprivate IP address. Did you know that you lot also take a public IP address? We explain what that means and how to discover it here.

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