{"id":337,"date":"2016-07-14T18:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-04-15T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:45:15","slug":"change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks","title":{"rendered":"Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  Currently, we can\u2019t imagine our reality without computer communications. We can connect it via wires, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. We <a href=\".\/how-to-connect-laptop-netbook-or-pc-to-wi-fi-in-windows\">connect our PC through Wi-Fi<\/a> and able to exchange files and multimedia with others in the network, <a href=\".\/how-to-connect-pc-internet-to-mobile-phone-or-tablet\">share our laptop internet with other mobiles<\/a>, <a href=\".\/pairing-bluetooth-end-devices-is-easy\">pair additional devices via Bluetooth<\/a> with it, etc.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  What is our computer name? Each one has to have own name to be recognizable in this digital world as each person has it too. So we should know how to change our computer name and where it can be found for the most popular types such as\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"#mac\">Mac<\/a> and\n  <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"#windows\">Windows<\/a>.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"mac\"><\/a>Rename computer name on Mac<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  We can<strong> change<\/strong> Mac <strong>recognizable external name<\/strong> in \u201cSystem Preferences\\Sharing\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks\/mac-computer-name-en.png\" alt=\"mac_computer_name\" title=\"mac_computer_name - Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"windows\"><\/a>How to change computer name in Windows<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  A number of ways to change computer name are as many as versions of Windows:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"#windows_10\">Windows 10 (Server 2016)<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"#windows_8\">Windows 8\\8.1 (Server 2012)<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"#windows_7\">Windows Vista\\7 (Server 2008)<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"#windows_xp\">Windows XP (Server 2003)<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a id=\"windows_10\"><\/a>Windows 10 (Server 2016)<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  We can see our <strong>PC<\/strong> <strong>external name<\/strong> in \u201cStart Menu\\Settings\\About<strong>\u201d<\/strong>. Click \u201cRename PC\u201d to set a recognizable name.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks\/windows-10-computer-name-en.png\" alt=\"windows_10_computer_name\" title=\"windows_10_computer_name - Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3><a id=\"windows_8\"><\/a>Windows 8\\8.1 (Server 2012)<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Check<\/strong> <strong>name<\/strong> via open Windows Explorer (press Win+E), right-click on Computer item and choose \u201cProperties\u201d then do as described on the next bullet.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks\/windows-8-computer-name-en.png\" alt=\"windows_8_computer_name\" title=\"windows_8_computer_name - Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3><a id=\"windows_7\"><\/a>Windows Vista\\7 (Server 2008)<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>View<\/strong> our <strong>system<\/strong> <strong>external name<\/strong> under \u201cStart Menu\\Control Panel\\System and Security\\System\u201d. Click \u201cChange settings\u201d and in the \u201cComputer Name\u201d tab click \u201cChange\u201d if necessary.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks\/windows-7-computer-name-en.png\" alt=\"windows_7_computer_name\" title=\"windows_7_computer_name - Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks\" \/><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks\/windows-7-computer-name-change.png\" alt=\"windows_7_computer_name_change\" title=\"windows_7_computer_name_change - Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3><a id=\"windows_xp\"><\/a>Windows XP (Server 2003)<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  We can find <strong>the name<\/strong> in \u201cStart Menu\\Control Panel\\System\\Computer Name\u201d. Use \u201cChange\u201d to set appropriate name <a href=\"#windows_7\">like in case of the Windows 7<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/change-pc-name-on-desktops-laptops-or-netbooks\/windows-xp-computer-name-change-en.png\" alt=\"windows_xp_computer_name_change\" title=\"windows_xp_computer_name_change - Change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2>\n  Conclusion<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  As a result, we can set the name of our PC to be well recognizable by other ones. Note that all devices have non-personed or model names by default e.g. \u201cDESKTOP-V47F3NH\u201d or \u201cMacBook Pro\u201d. So we recommend to change it e.g. \u201cPaul\u2019s laptop\u201d to avoid any type of misunderstanding in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  How to view and change PC name on desktops, laptops or netbooks in Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,621,59,633,632],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","tag-change","tag-laptop","tag-name","tag-netbook","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}