How do I show client hostname on its desktop?

[Ben79]

Hi

I am sure that this will work somehow (seen it on my doctor's computer hehe). But I have been searching for a while now on Google as well on this forum, but not been able to find any solution for this.

I want to have either a GPO or some reg fix to have all my clients XP/2000/Vista clients to show their Hostname on their desktop or more information if possible.

Anyone know how to do that? =)

Ben

 

[Lemon13]

download bginfo by sysinternals/microsoft, it should do what u want

 

[Ben79]

Hi and thank you for your post.
Great program there.
However before I start to mess with this bginfo program, I have one more question.

Atm I use a GPO that sets clients desktop (a JPG file from my server) as well as having active desktop disabled. Clients can not change these setting (obviously).
So will BGINFO work with these settings or do I need to change the GPO and allow clients to change their wallpaper?

Regards

Ben

 

[Lemon13]

i havnt tried that yet, but after a short look in the help i dont think it´ll work cause...

of the centralized stored background image but...

u can run it as a taskbar icon.....

just have a look at technet

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

 

[Ben79]

Cool I'll check this next time at work.
I also noticed that their bginfo forum has 30+ pages =).
So there will be some reading in this matter hehe.

Thank you for your help!

Regards

Ben

 

[TheLad]

You could see if this works if it is what you are looking for:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/rename_my_computer_on_desktop.htm

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[TechyMcSe2k]

This will put the "Computername" in place of My Computer and also put it at the top of the Windows Security box when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and you will see it easily when going to logon.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"Welcome"=" - %computername%"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]
@="My Computer"

"LocalizedString"=hex(2):25,00,43,00,4f,00,4d,00,50,00,55,00,54,00,45,00,52,00,\
4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,00,00


***Backup Registry first for testing this Logon Script***

 

[Ben79]

Hi and thank you all for your posts.
Now I have some solutions to try out it seems.


Regards

Ben