Any easy way to view IP address in Windows 7?

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  1. paulescobar

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    So I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7.

    Among other annoyances, I discovered that it's become a chore to find ones IP address. You either have to use the command prompt or navigate within the control panel.

    In Windows XP, I could simply click the network icon near my taskbar...and view the IP address in the pop-up window.

    Ideally, I would like to get that XP functionality back in 7. But I am welcome to any other suggestions which could correct this inconvenience. :rolleyes:
     
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    Dermot7,

    As I said, navigating through the Control Panel for such basic information is tedious.

    TheWindBringeth & treehouse786,

    Thank you for these suggestions.
     
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    That will not help.

    The IP address displayed on web browsers (216.xx...) is different from the IP address displayed on my system (192.168...) If I need to configure something on my router, I need the system IP address.

    Sorry if my terminology is incorrect, I am no expert at these things.
     
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    If you use Firefox, type home in the url bar and your router settings will come up with your ip address included.
     
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    I just tried that and got redirected to hxxp://www.home.com which has a bad WOT rating.
     
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    It's quite obvious that you didn't even bother to read the OP's post before replying to the thread, as he already mentioned that!
     
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    Yes, I'm at work now. I'll try it again when I get home because it sounds like a cool feature that I wasn't aware of. Sorry for the confusion. :oops:
     
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    Typing "home" no quotes in the address bar under Mozilla works fine.
    Thanks for this Ron as I am still relatively new to Mozilla.
    If you type home in the address bar in IE, you search engine is going to assuming you are searching for something. Type 192.168.2.1 in your address bar, most ISP's support this functionality.

     
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    What happens, under the hood, when you enter "home" into Firefox's address bar? Based on ronjor's description it sounds as though it ends up loading your router's admin page. How does it arrive at that? Is it getting translated, via name resolution and/or internal Firefox code, to one of these:

    [noparse]http://192.168.2.1/[/noparse]
    [noparse]http://DefaultGatewayAddress/[/noparse]
    [noparse]http://ExternalIPAddress/[/noparse]

    or is something else going on? It doesn't work for me either but then I have various configuration changes that could reasonably be expected to interfere with it.
     
  16. Robin A.

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    Not in my case. It just interprets it as a Google search.
     
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    It doesn't work for me either, but if I type my router's hostname "Gargoyle" (for OpenWRT Gargoyle) it takes me to the admin page. Is "home" a common name for certain brands of routers?
     
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    I have two things on my desktop:

    A shortcut to: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k ipconfig /all

    And I have a created a shortcut named Superconfig or whatever name you prefer: explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

    The second one opens the "Windows Master Control Panel" which might be handy at times.
     
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    That is just GodMode!

    And you didn't need to do:

    explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

    You could've just done:

    GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
     
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    I know :)
     
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    Noted, Robin - your ISP would know how to access your router and or Network UI.

     
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    That second Windows shell shortcut is very sexy Gerard, we thank you for this.

    Code:
    C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
     
  25. WSFuser

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    I am curious about this as well. I never heard of this feature before however it does seem useful.

    Edit: BTW this feature seems to work in Chromium too, however, you need to include the http at the beginning: http://home
     
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