I am going to use the small script that someone sent me in a vbs script during the login processing.
Thanks Justin A. Salandra MCSE Windows 2000 & 2003 Network and Technology Services Manager Catholic Healthcare System 212.752.7300 - office 917.455.0110 - cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 4:00 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Display Computer Name on Desktop Justin - I'm going to try again because, IMHO, you're working WAY too hard at this one problem. My current preference - http://www.kewlit.com/whoami/index2b.html Great for the Data Center boxes connected via KVM. If you haven't looked at this tool - you have NO IDEA what you're missing. Simply elegant. Not as much info (or, as I've seen it on some systems - flipping information OVERLOAD) as Sysinternals 'bginfo', but if you just want the simple basics and a NAME, here it is. Don't knock this one until you try it. -rtk P.S. Ulf - love the reg hack, BTW... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-Weidner Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:03 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Display Computer Name on Desktop Hello Justin, Apart from the scripting answers you got, here's a different solution: Rename My Computer on any workstation to WHATEVER-I-DONT-GIVE-A-D. Open up regedit and search for WHATEVER-I-DONT-GIVE-A-D. Create a new Key of the type Reg_expand_sz called WHATEVER, and put in "%computername%" as value. Export the parent key (where WHATEVER-I-DONT-GIVE-A-D was the default value) to a reg file. Open up the regfile in notepad, and change it so that the value of WHATEVER of type reg_expand_sz is assigned to the default key "@". Delete the old key in regedit, then doubleclick the regfile. The type of the key should now be reg_expand_sz (before it was reg_sz and would have shown %computername% instead of resolving it. If you are nice, and want some more information, you can use this regfile: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}] @=hex(2):25,00,75,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,25,00,20, 00,\ 40,00,20,00,25,00,63,00,6f,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 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CL SID\ {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}] @=hex(2):25,00,75,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,25,00,20, 00,\ 40,00,20,00,25,00,63,00,6f,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 Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner MVP-Book "Windows XP - Die Expertentipps": http://tinyurl.com/44zcz Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner WebSite: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Salandra, Justin A. > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 7:41 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Display Computer Name on Desktop > > I have a question, is there a way to display the computer > name on the desktop either through a login script or via GPO? > > Justin A. Salandra > MCSE Windows 2000 & 2003 > Network and Technology Services Manager > Catholic Healthcare System > 212.752.7300 - office > 917.455.0110 - cell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
