There may be times when you need to figure out what your Windows 11/10 computer name is. It could be because you’re having trouble accessing your device and you need to locate it on the network, or ...

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You can find your computer's name on a Windows PC by opening the "About" menu. On a Mac, you'll find your computer's name in the System Preferences app, under "Sharing." Your computer's personal name ...

Occasionally, your computer may show up on the network with a "(2)" or other number in parentheses after its name. In some cases, it will appear this way in the sidebar of your computer's Finder, but ...

I need to take a running windows desktop box that's part of a domain, give it a new computer name, and then continue working on it (with the box having the new name), without having to reboot at all.

A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded some of my lab servers to Windows Server 2016. Although the upgrade process seemed to work flawlessly, my hectic schedule prevented me from doing an exhaustive ...