Manually modify the registry to change the MAC address

Let's do an experiment.

1. Preparation Tool Win7 MAC Address Changer, Regshot

Use Win7 MAC address changer to change MAC addresses before you open Regshot to detect changes in the registry.

Create a pre-modified registry snapshot

Then open Win7 MAC Address Changer

Select the network card to change the MAC address, randomly generate a MAC address and then click "Change", then disable/enable the network card, and finally refresh to see the MAC address changed successfully

Then set up a registry snapshot after modifying the MAC address

A report page pops up, and clicking OK will generate an HTML page

, you can see from the report page that manually changing the MAC address actually modifies both registry values

PS: After I manually test, in fact, just add/remove [hkey_local_machine\system\controlset001\control\class\{ 4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\ the NetworkAddress key under the registry key of your network card can be used to change the MAC address, this operation will be automatically updated to [hkey_local_machine\ System\currentcontrolset\control\class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\ under your NIC, If you delete the NetworkAddress key, you can revert to the default MAC address of the NIC.

Manually modify the registry to change the MAC address