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I have a laptop that I take to work and home. At home I have a static ip address, at work I get DHCP. Everytime i move my computer I have to manually edit the tcp/ip properties. Anyway to automate this? Or a switch? Any help is apprisiated. Thanks in advance.

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by steveow1

Suggestion:Go to Start>Settings>Network&Dialup connections>Make New Connection(one for Work/one for Home)Designate connection name
Option:Save as Shortcut to 'Desktop'(each one, or as prefered)

by ann777

go to www.netswitcher.com and download their $9/license software.

This software will allow you to setup and configure your laptop for multiple ip addresses and network configurations. Then you just select the network you are booting into when you power up the laptop.

by ins413

I copied and pasted this from a previous answer I posted.

Using the netsh command works very well. I am not sure where I found this tip, and it probably was here at thechrepublic, but I kept a copy of it. Again, it works well.

Switching Between Multiple W2K Network Configurations

If you are for example using a Notebook in various different Networks (e.g. at different Customer Sites), You always have to change Network Settings like IP / WINS / DNS Configuration /DHCP. The "netsh" Utility gives you the possibility to "dump" all settings into a file, that you can later use to restore your complete Network settings.

To Save the current Settings:

netsh -c interface dump >networksetting.txt

You can then create a dump file for every Network that you use.

To Load the Settings again:

netsh -f networksetting.txt

In this way you can easily switch between different Configuration Sets.

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