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coderight

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Mar 1, 2004
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Is there a limit of characters for computer name . Currently my computer name is 16 characters and while installing the computer name trunctates to 15 characters and shows in APS.


Please let me know if anybody faced similar problem..

do i need to change my computer name to 15 characters and remove the wild characters like "-"

Thanks
 
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