How assign a static IP address on Windows Vista

How assign a static IP address on Windows Vista

This time I will give you a step by step guide on how you can assign a static IP address on your Windows vista computer. This will be one way on how you can manually assign an IP address to your computer running on windows vista. And as I have mentioned to my previous hub regarding static IP address, no matter what the reason why you want to set a static IP address this will help you do that.

1. The first step is to get in to the Network and Sharing Center screen. If you don't know how to get there just follow any of the steps below;

• Click the orb (the windows icon at the bottom left hand side of the screen), then click on Control Panel, and open Network and sharing center / Network and Internet.

1. Now once you are in the Network and Sharing Center window you need to click on View Status on the connection you want to set the static IP address. Again like what I have mentioned on my previous hub there are times where you have 2 connections available Local Area Connection (wired) and Wireless Network Connection (wireless), no need to get confused just make sure you know what connection is being used by your computer or which connection you want to have the static IP address. Or just think of it this way, if the computer is weird to the network the select the Local Area Connection or if it connects to the network via wireless then select the Wireless Network Connection. Let's use the LAN as an example. After clicking View Status for Local Area Connection your Local Area Connection Status window will popup, on this widow click on the button at the bottom that says Properties, another window will popup it's the Local Area Connection Properties on this screen you need to select/highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click on Properties. Now the Internet Protocol Version 4 Properties window will come up. You just need to put the dot on Use the following IP address and now you will see that the IP address, Subnet Mask, and Default gateway field will now become enabled and you can now type in the said fields. You can now type in the IP address, Default gateway, DNS Servers that you want the computer to have. The subnet mask will be automatically assigned by the computer just click the field and it will be automatically filled in. And just click on OK button all the way out to save the changes that you changed on this screen. And that is it! You're done!

Note: During the steps you might get a pop window (this is the user account control) saying Windows needs your permission to continue, just say continue to grant permission and for you to be able to access these locations like Network connections.

I hope that this has been informative and helpful to you.

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