{"id":2685,"date":"2018-12-07T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2018-12-07T11:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:33:01","slug":"how-to-rename-your-windows-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/how-to-rename-your-windows-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Rename Your Windows Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press the windows key + pause key and a pop up box will appear. Now select Advanced system settings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2690\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1121\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture4.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture4-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture4-1024x415.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture4-768x311.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1121px) 100vw, 1121px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another pop box will appear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2689 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture3.jpg 407w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture3-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the top of the pop up box select Computer Name and click Change in the lower right corner of the popup box<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2687 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture.jpg 408w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another pop up menu will appear and in the top line named Computer Name you can delete the default name and change it to what you wish, keeping in mind the following rules<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Computer name can not exceed 15 characters<\/li>\n<li>Do not use any special characters, for instance: @|\\*\/&amp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2688 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture2.jpg 315w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture2-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After renaming the computer click OK at the bottom<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2692 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture5.jpg 317w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture5-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After clicking OK, a new box will pop up informing you that you must restart your pc for the name change to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>Restart when appropriate and the name change will be in place<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2693 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture6.jpg 348w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Capture6-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press the windows key + pause key and a pop up box will appear. Now select Advanced system settings. Another pop box will appear. At the top of the pop up box select Computer Name and click Change in the lower right corner of the popup box Another pop up menu will appear and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-cnsit","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}