Changing Computer Name

[Vectraat]

Is there any drawback to doing so?
 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-computer-name-in-windows-vista/

[iKingRPG]

3 minutes ago, Vectraat said:

Is there any drawback to doing so?
 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-computer-name-in-windows-vista/

The only bad thing is if you connect to it remotely from other PCs with a hostname instead of an IP. Is someone going to point out WINDOWS VISTAA

[Vectraat]

1 minute ago, iKingRPG said:

The only bad thing is if you connect to it remotely from other PCs with a hostname instead of an IP. Is someone going to point out WINDOWS VISTAA

Eh? "Is someone going to point out WINDOWS VISTAA" ?

[IgorM]

no. It will mainly change the name of your pc shows to other devices on the network.

 

8 minutes ago, iKingRPG said:

Is someone going to point out WINDOWS VISTAA

why use windows vistaaa? hahaha there you go

[lawliot]

6 hours ago, Vectraat said:

Is there any drawback to doing so?
 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-computer-name-in-windows-vista/

Nope.

[Suppersupport]

14 hours ago, Vectraat said:

vista/

are you seriously going to use windows vista?

[NineEyeRon]

14 minutes ago, will4623 said:

are you seriously going to use windows vista?

Vistaaaa wasn’t that bad was it?

 

I just played games on it as it came with my first ever gaming PC, I upgraded it to 7 and eventually 10 in the end.

[Dedayog]

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[enigmakahn]

So the biggest part about having the name is making it easy to identify which computer you are looking at in a network. and having an easy name that you can map other computers to, especially when you use DHCP for IPs on your network.

 

If you are in a network where you only have 1-2 computers there is no real reason to change your name. however once you get past that it starts to become more important.

 

Really at that point the question becomes, how are you going to name them. I personally have 2 techniques i employ for this, one for work and one for personal machines. The work formula is simple, [location][function][iteration] in practice this may look something like EDM-Till1 or Cal-Srv-1 or Edm-FL1-Xerox. this is great when you have lots of machines you are looking over as it makes it very quick and easy to find what machine is having the problem. 

 

For personal machine i would recommend using a theme, like in my house i went for the ecosystem approach, since you usually only have a few dozen devices it is a lot easier to keep track of more abstract names. So servers are called TheForest, or TheGrove, computers are called Brook, or Oak, or something along those lines, I call my printer Dozer since all it does is destroy trees.

 

Hopefully this answered your question though it was probably a bit long winded.

[WkdPaul]

14 hours ago, Vectraat said:

Eh? "Is someone going to point out WINDOWS VISTAA" ?

You can point to a computer on your network by using the name you give to it. So if you change a PC's name, and you have something pointing to it, it's not going to work anymore.

 

An exemple would be if you share a folder on that PC.

 

If you're not using the devices names (for shares or other) then the PC's name isn't important.

[homeap5]

There may be some side effect. In win7 that type of change extended boot time a little. Probably because registry entries still pointed to old name. So after change, use some good registry editor like Registry Workshop and replace old name with new one. That always fix that little problem in my case. I didn't notice slowdown in win10 though.