{"id":2740,"date":"2019-01-17T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2019-01-17T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:53:00","slug":"how-to-rename-your-macos-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/how-to-rename-your-macos-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Rename your MacOS Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to it maybe necessary to rename your Mac computer to a new name. To change the official name of your Mac use the following steps.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Open System Preferences in the drop down menu under the Apple icon at the top left of your screen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2741 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture.jpg 283w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. A pop up will appear with system preferences. Now choose Sharing icon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2742 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture2.jpg 372w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture2-300x68.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 3. In the next dialogue box you will see at the top Computer Name. Enter your new name for your Mac here. You can then close the window.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2744 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture3.jpg 555w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Capture3-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. You have successfully changed the name of your Mac computer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to it maybe necessary to rename your Mac computer to a new name. To change the official name of your Mac use the following steps. Open System Preferences in the drop down menu under the Apple icon at the top left of your screen. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-general-cnsit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}