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sweetNoob
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Network interace cards

I used a program called tmac to change my nics mac address.

then i formatted and reinstalled and saw that it is still changed even though i installed the network driver.

how did it permanently change the value?

ashrc4
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4. To restore the original MAC address of the network adapter, select the adapter, click Restore Original button in the Change MAC Address frame.

Maybe it depends where your looking;

»www.technitium.com/tmac/ ··· dex.html

mackey
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You sure you reformatted and reinstalled?
quote:
How Does It Work?

This software just writes a value into the windows registry. When the Network Adapter Device is enabled, windows searches for the registry value 'NetworkAddress' in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1- 08002bE10318}\[ID of NIC e.g. 0001]. If a value is present, windows will use it as MAC address, if not, windows will use the hard coded manufacturer provided MAC address.
/M

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Yes. there was an option named "make mac address persistent"
SweetNoob

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well all i know is im changing my nic.

garys_2k
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Maybe the NIC has writable persistent memory that accepts the MAC that the OS assigns to it and makes it the default. I'm not seeing a security issue, here.

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Thanks for the clarification. i did not think of it that way.