This tweak will rename "My Computer" to "Username on
Computername" making it simple to determine which computer you
are logged on to and which username you are logged on as.
- Open the Registry Editor (Using REGEDT32.EXE, this is
necessary for REG_EXPAND_SZ) click on the Start button
on your taskbar, then click on Run and type
"regedt32" and click on OK to start the regedit
utility.
- Expand
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
(see picture 1).
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- Rename the value named "LocalizedString" to
"LocalizedString.old". Create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ
value named "LocalizedString", and set the value to
"%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%".
- Exit the registry editor, click on your desktop and press
F5 (for refresh). The "My Computer" icon should now
be rename to "Username on Computername".
For Windows 2000
- Rename the value named "LocalizedString" to
"LocalizedString.old".
- Create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ value named
"LocalizedString", and copy the contents of the original
value to the new value except change the words "My Computer"
to equal "%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%".
For example, the new "LocalizedString" value may equal
"@C:\WINNT\system32\shell32.dll,-9216@1033,%USERNAME% on
%COMPUTERNAME%".
Note: Users of Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater should
use the method for Windows XP.
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