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Change “My Computer” icon text on desktop (For Windows 2000).

You can display the name of the currently logged in user along with the computer name as “My Computer” icon text.

Tweak for : Windows 2000

Description:

Windows shows “My Computer” as the text associated to the icon on desktop. But, you can change the name to display the currently logged in username along with computer name in the format “User name on Compute name”.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and search the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry path listed below. Now, check the string value “Default” and delete the Value data contents, if the key exists.

In the second step, navigate to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry path given below and rename the String value “LocalizedString” to “LocalizedString-default”.

Finally, again go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedt32” (this is essential for Multi-String and Expandable String Values in Windows 2000) and navigate to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry path listed below. Here, create an Expandable String value by the same name “LocalizedString”, and input the Value data as “%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%”.

However, if you want to get the original name back, delete the new “LocalizedString” value and rename the default value to “LocalizedString”.

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Show username and computername in place of My Computer.reg

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Default

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Deleted

Registry Entry 2 :

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\]

Key Type :

Root

Value Name :

LocalizedString

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

LocalizedString-default

Value Action :

Rename

Registry Entry 3 :

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\]

Key Type :

Root

Value Name :

LocalizedString

Data Type :

REG_EXPAND_SZ (Expandable String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

"My Computer" text on desktop is replaced by currently logged in user name and computer name.

"My Computer" Text is not changed.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\] key, right-click on the "Default" String value and click on "Delete".

Third, go to the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\] key, right-click on the "LocalizedString" String value and click on "Rename" to change the name to "LocalizedString-default".

Fourth, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit32".

Fifth, go to the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\] key, click on the "File" menu and click on "Add Value".

Sixth, enter the value "LocalizedString" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Finally, enter the value "%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

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