Change windows name (regtweak)

[Demonforce]

Hi,

I saw under regtweaks this:

Change computer name

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]

@="My Computer"

"LocalizedString"=hex(2):25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,\

25,00,20,00,6f,00,6e,00,20,00,25,00,43,00,4f,00,4d,00,50,00,55,00,54,00,45,\

00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,00,00

"LocalizedString"=hex(2):25,00,63,00,6f,00,6d,00,70,00,75,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,\

6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,25,00,00,00

I was wondering if you can get something like a promtbox where you can type in the wished computer name. This because @ the compagny where i work, we install alot of diffrent pc's, and they al need a diffrent pc name. if this is possible, it wil take allot of work out of my hands.

Greetz Demonforce

[Arie]

Why would a certain prompt be any faster than the normal way of renaming machines? And why not change your unattended installation to retrieve the computernames from a file, or to generate different names itself, or to pause on the screen where you can manually type the name yourself during the setup? Another option could be a small VB application which remotely changes the registry of target computers.

[Innocent Devil]

There is a utility called "Destop Rename" (desktoprename.exe)

it can rename all desktop icons including My comuper, Documents, Recyle bin, Network, and IE

which i got from SAA (stand alone applications)

but currently i dont hav that bckup cd

better do a search, u wiil get it

[Arie]

Re-reading this topic and I'm now somewhat confused as to what the topic starter wants. It seems like he wants to rename various machines, but in his post he mentions renaming "My Computer", so not the machine name itself. What do you want to do exactly Demonforce; rename the machine or rename "My Computer"?

[beaker]

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

Edited December 14, 2007 by beaker

[arjuna07]

...wished computer name...

Just in case he wants to rename something else...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"NV Hostname"="11011110"
"Hostname"="11011110"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"NV Hostname"="11011110"
"Hostname"="11011110"

This would rename your computers name to "11011110"... and is, afaik (not testet) the only way to name computers to 'binary'.

You need to restart the computer though

Hope this helps

Greets

Edited December 14, 2007 by arjuna07

[vnl5486]

Well I will give all this a try...now hopefully will not have any trouble...