Written
February 27, 2010
I used to be able to apply a little patch to the registry as a local administrator (in WinXP), but in Win7 I can no longer do that.
Here's somewhat similar way of doing it, but I am not able to write to that part of the Registry. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Data Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ [Expandable String Value] // Value Name: LocalizedString
Rename the value [LocalizedString] to [LocalizedString.old]
Modify/Create the Value Name [LocalizedString] according to the Value Data listed below.
Create a REG_EXPAND_SZ [Expandable String Value] and name it [LocalizedString]
Value Data for [LocalizedString]: [%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%]
Exit Registry and Reboot
“My Computer” icon will now reflect the current user and computer name.