Friday, September 12, 2008

Renaming "My Computer" in Desktop

Managing a number of machines out of 800, everyday, needs a quicker response from your department in solving trouble tickets. A way to reduce of asking the user of his/her computer name to do remote desktop support is by adding this word “%COMPUTERNAME%” in the registry.

- Click Start
- Click Run
- Type regedit
- Expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
- Rename the value named “LocalizedString” to “LocalizedString.orig”.
- Create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ value named “LocalizedString”
- Set the value to “My Computer %COMPUTERNAME%”.
- Exit the registry editor and refresh your desktop.

The best way to implement this is by applying this in your perfect image machine during roll-outs or hardware refresh.

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