I think Arie is right; I think he's talking about renaming "My Computer" to the machine name... If so, here's what I run from a batch file to accomplish this (it's very similar to what you put above, it just automates it): REM *** Rename "My Computer" to machine name *** REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" /V "" /D %COMPUTERNAME% /F