I do a lot of work on Windows Server 2008 remote desktops and often lose track of which host I am currently logged on to.Is there a way of displaying (without installing any non-standard apps) the host name or IP address of the host I am connected to in either the wallpaper or the notification area?I tried creating files in the desktop with the name of the machine - but my roaming profile shows the same set of desktop files on every machine, so that was scuppered. Duh!In shell windows this is easy: just set the prompt to display the host name. Surely there is a simple way of doing the same for the graphical desktop. You are looking for Microsoft's Sysinternals. It is very customizable.

• Change Computer Name Windows 8

While renaming a desktop computer, laptop, or tablet using the Settings app only works on Windows 10, you can use the System Properties and Command Prompt, and even PowerShell to change the name of a device all major releases of the operating system, including Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and other versions. How can the answer be improved? On windows eight Right Schlick on it in the start menu and press uninstall Windows 7 Press start button Go to control panel Press program's Uninstall Find windows 8 on the list the click on it.

Not to mention it comes straight from Microsoft for free.How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version? If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo.

It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen. It should be noted that bginfo essentially modifies your background image. I can think of two disadvantages using this method: 1. If you use the same login credentials on multiple machines, assuming those credentials store your personal settings (like backgrounds), you could end up having the IP address of the machine where the information was initially created being displaying incorrectly as the IP address for other machines. Having a rotating/slideshow background will wipe out the information when the background changes.–Nov 11 '15 at 17:06. Put BGINFO on a network share and add it to a local logon script or a batch file to the startup folder for all users.There is a switch to supporess the license warning at first run and you can create an optional configuration file that determines what parameters are displayed.e.g.BGINFO.BAT @echo offbginfo bginfo.bgi /TIMER:0 /SILENT /NOLICPROMPT /LOG:Q:bginfolog.txtThere is even an option to have it add the computer information to an excel spreadsheet.

Change Computer Name Windows 8

I have used that in the past to gather configuration information on the workstations. This questions is now 8 years old. BGInfo doesn't seem to work with Windows 10 desktop backgrounds. That is, background images behind the text that BGInfo should be writing on top of. It does work entirely correctly on top of a solid color background as far as I could tell. Pete's registry key didn't work (able to change permissions, had no effect), and I'm not trying that sketchy URL.So here's a nice simple solution that takes literally 5 seconds to setup:Right-click on Taskbar -Go to Toolbars -Choose New Toolbar,type in%computername%, and Click Select Folder.Done.where credit is due.