Re: Computer name/ My Computer
From: Odo (Odo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:59:01 +0200
Havent tried this on XP (only on w2k), but it should work just as well.
The only thing 'problematic' is your desire to have it display Full DNS/Full
Computername.
Not sure what you mean by Full Computername.
Anyway, this is how you can get this:
Start regedit and move to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{
20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Note: If this entry does not exist, a quick way to get is defined in the
registry is: go to the desktop, select My Computer, hit F2 and Type 'My
Computer' This action will create the entry in the registry.
Select the <Default> value (on the right) and delete it
>From the Edit menu select "add value"
Leave the value name blank and set the type to REG_EXPAND_SZ
Click OK and enter the text:
User: %Username%, My Computer on: %Computername%
Click OK
Click on the desktop and press F5 (for refresh) and the change takes effect
Note: Without changing the value type to REG_EXPAND_SZ the %username% and
%computername% variables do not get expanded into the actual user name and
computer name.
hth
Odo
<James.c@lycos.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2baa901c4680a$cb5a9750$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I need to do the following:
> Have the Full DNS/Full Computer name automatically added
> to the "my computer" text description, for example it
> should look like: "My computer on XYZ-01".
> Thanks,
> James
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