Windows

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• Cyberduck
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Windows Power Shell

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Windows 8

Keyboard shortcut.

• Ctrl+C: charm bar
• Ctrl+w: search

Find public IP address

• http://superuser.com/questions/165986/command-prompt-command-for-external-ip
• http://superuser.com/questions/404926/how-to-get-my-external-ip-address-over-nat-from-the-windows-command-line

Create a VB script text file "ip.cbs" with a content like

Option Explicit
Dim http : Set http = CreateObject( "MSXML2.ServerXmlHttp" )
http.Open "GET", "http://icanhazip.com", False
http.Send
Wscript.Echo http.responseText   'or do whatever you want with it
Set http = Nothing

Open a command line and run

cscript ip.vbs

The output will look like

C:\Users\mli>cscript ip.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

2601:a:3780:5b:b856:6a09:3ea3:5e26