Can the IP Address field for BGINFO be improved to filter out inactive devices?

DataMeister 0 Reputation points
2026-10-31T02:34:03.0933333+00:00

The built in IP Address field for BGINFO seems to return (none) for all network adapters that are not active. On modern motherboards that can be up to six devices (including some virtual devices) so it ends up looking like:

192.168.1.50
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)

It sure would be nice if the IP Address field had a setting that could filter for active devices without needing external script files. I'm hoping for a solution that is contained within the *.bgi settings file.

I tried a WMI query with "WHERE IPEnabled = TRUE" on the end that filters out the unused adapters, but it returns the IPv4 address and IPv6 address side by side with no way I can see to filter out the IPv6 address if not wanted.

Perhaps in BGINFO v5.0?

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