{"id":583,"date":"2011-05-15T20:18:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-05-15T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:42:26","slug":"computer-name-appear-under-my-computer-xp-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Computer Name appear under My Computer-XP only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/files\/MyComputer.reg\">Reg File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just double click the file and say yes to merge to reg.  Adds the Computer Name to appear under My Computer.<\/p>\n<p>Fails on Windows 7 because the part of the reg that is edited in Windows 7 needs admin rights and even the admin doesn&#8217;t have rights, so you have to manually edit it.  Annoying!<\/p>\n<p>You can run the .reg above or if you don&#8217;t trust it, then edit the reg manually as shown below<\/p>\n<p>Change Computer Name Text<br \/>\nGo to regedit<br \/>\nFirst go to<br \/>\nDelete the entry in (Default)<br \/>\nRename LocalizedString just in case.  Create a new \u201cExpandable String Value\u201d and rename it LocalizedString<br \/>\nPut in it<br \/>\nMy Computer %COMPUTERNAME%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imageshack.us\/photo\/my-images\/839\/mycomp1.png\/\">http:\/\/imageshack.us\/photo\/my-images\/839\/mycomp1.png\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then it appears you have to go to (although not all the time.  Sometimes just the first above edit works)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imageshack.us\/photo\/my-images\/62\/mycomp2.png\/\">http:\/\/imageshack.us\/photo\/my-images\/62\/mycomp2.png\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And remove the txt in (Default)<br \/>\nCreate a new \u201cExpandable String Value\u201d and rename it LocalizedString and put<br \/>\n%COMPUTERNAME%<br \/>\nClose regedit and press F5 and should update, if not reboot, if still doesn\u2019t work then check over the reg changes again.<\/p>\n<p>You can try and edit the keys in Windows 7 or Server 2008 but you&#8217;ll need to take control of those specific keys in the permissions tab or you&#8217;ll get access denied and won&#8217;t even be able to give yourself permissions to change the permissions to that key.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT-Just tried in Server 2008 R2 and appears it doesn&#8217;t know what the %COMPUTERNAME% tag is so just shows %COMPUTERNAME% oh well.<\/p>\n<p>(I think I need to look at a site redesign as the small area means having problems adding images hence the external image links above)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reg File Just double click the file and say yes to merge to reg. Adds the Computer Name to appear under My Computer. Fails on Windows 7 because the part of the reg that is edited in Windows 7 needs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126,16],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-my-computer","tag-registry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}