{"id":11298,"date":"2016-07-02T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2016-07-02T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T20:40:11","slug":"changing-the-name-of-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/changing-the-name-of-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Name of your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"auto-style751\"><span class=\"auto-style737\">Changing the Name of your Computer<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>This tip works on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10\/<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style751\"><span class=\"auto-style737\">It&#8217;s really easy to change the name of your computer. Here&#8217;s a fast way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>1. Press Windows key + R<br \/>\n2. Type sysdm.cpl and press Enter<br \/>\n3. You&#8217;ll see a dialog appear like the one below:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/span> <span class=\"normaltext\"> <span class=\"auto-style736\"> <span class=\"auto-style737\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/namechange-a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"538\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. You&#8217;ll probably want to change the Description of the computer first, so next to Computer description, in the box, highlight the description that is there, press the Delete key, then type in whatever you want:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/namechange-b.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"546\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Above you can see where I&#8217;ve changed the computer description to Jennifer&#8217;s Laptop. You can put anything you want there. Click Apply\/OK<\/p>\n<p>6. To change the computer name&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/namechange2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"546\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7. Click the &#8220;Change&#8221; button next to &#8220;To rename this computer, click Change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/namechange3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"430\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8. Above: I&#8217;ve changed the computer name to Jennifer&#8217;s Laptop but you can rename it &#8220;The Big Elephant&#8221; or &#8220;Mean EB&#8221; or &#8220;Whatever&#8221;.\u00a0 After you type the name you want, click OK. That&#8217;s all there is to it.\u00a0 You may not be able to use apostrophes in your computer name&#8230; I didn&#8217;t test it \ud83d\ude42 You might want to avoid rejection by using Jennifers Laptop or Jennifers-Laptop or Big-Elephant, or whatever &#8212; you can extrapolate.<\/p>\n<p>For those using Windows 10 &#8211; you can rename your computer as described above.\u00a0Or you can do it this way:<\/p>\n<p>Click Start&#8212;&gt;Settings &#8211;&gt; System &#8212;&gt; About: Click &#8220;Rename PC&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>In Windows 10 you have to join separate words with hyphens. like Jennifers-Laptop.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the Name of your Computer This tip works on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10\/ It&#8217;s really easy to change the name of your computer. Here&#8217;s a fast way to do it. 1. Press Windows key + R 2. Type sysdm.cpl and press Enter 3. 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