How to Change Your DNS Settings on Windows 10

While your ISP provides your public DNS for you, you can change your DNS settings to use a public service that can provide better security and performance over that of what your ISP gives.

Check out our list of free public DNS servers here: Public DNS

You can easily update your DNS settings in Windows 10 by launching the control panel and editing your network adapters DNS.

By default, your DNS configuration is set to automatically pull the settings from whatever your ISP provides. To manually set a DNS server in Windows 10, do the following:

1. In the Windows search field at the bottom left, type "Control Panel" and click on the control panel app.

2. In the top right of the window, select "small icons" from the "View By" drop down, and then click on the "Network and Sharing Center"

3. On the next window that opens, on the left, click on the "Change Adapter Settings". This will launch a window which shows all the installed network adapters on your machine

4. Right click on the network adapter you want to set the DNS for and select "Properties". If you are on wireless, select your wifi adapter, if you have a wired connection, choose "Ethernet".

5. With the properties window open, find the option for "Internet Protocol Version 4", highlight it, and then click on the "Properties" button.

5. Here, you will select the radial button, "Use the Following DNS Server Addresses",and set the address to a DNS server of your choosing. 

Note: For the sake of reliability and redundancy, it is recommended you set the preferred and alternate DNS servers to ones provided by separate companies.