How can i determine windows is now using dynamic mac adress in my own app

Question

I'm developing an APP which binding to the computer's MAC address, and i use the MAC address to identity the computer my APP runs on, when work on windows 10 with dynamic MAC address setting, my APP can't work correctly.
Is there any one could tell me, how to determine the computer my APP runs on is now using dynamic MAC address in my program, in addition how could i turn off it in my program (not via windows 10's WLAN setting)

many thanks!

Answer 1

Hi,
You may go through the registry. The network adapter configurations are in subkeys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
and the MAC address is configured in value "NetworkAddress".

You could refer to this link
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/d4d8e555-3aa4-487b-aa1b-524c3fe1ae57/how-do-i-set-the-quotrandom-hardware-addressesquot-setting-in-wifi-settings-via-gpo?forum=win10itpronetworking

Best Regards,
Ian

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