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26 Mar 2005 12:55 AM

Scott

I have a Win2K Pro network and Win2K clients. We began updating clients to
WinXp and noticed that when they browse the network, the list of hosts comes
up with whatever was entered in the Description section when the host was
built with the name of the machine in parenthesis. This is east to fix in
WinXP, where you just right-clik on My Computer, select Properties, go to the
Computer Name tab and type in a new name. Wehre is this in Windows 2000?

26 Mar 2005 1:59 AM

Geoffw

my computer : properties : net work ID : change computer
name : properties

"Scott" <Sc***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Win2K Pro network and Win2K clients. We began

updating clients to

> WinXp and noticed that when they browse the network, the

list of hosts comes

> up with whatever was entered in the Description section

when the host was

> built with the name of the machine in parenthesis. This

is east to fix in

> WinXP, where you just right-clik on My Computer, select

Properties, go to the

> Computer Name tab and type in a new name. Wehre is this

in Windows 2000?

26 Mar 2005 4:39 AM

Dave Patrick

Right-click My Computer, "Manage", right-click "Computer Management(local)",
Properties|Network Identification|Description

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"Scott" wrote:
|I have a Win2K Pro network and Win2K clients. We began updating clients to
| WinXp and noticed that when they browse the network, the list of hosts
comes
| up with whatever was entered in the Description section when the host was
| built with the name of the machine in parenthesis. This is east to fix
in
| WinXP, where you just right-clik on My Computer, select Properties, go to
the
| Computer Name tab and type in a new name. Wehre is this in Windows 2000?