Changing Desktop Icons In Multiple Profiles

From: Dean R. (riden@mchsi.com)
Date: 08/22/02


From: "Dean R." <riden@mchsi.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:08:41 -0500

Hi,

I have a hopefully simple question... (Is there such a thing???)

When we setup machines for our network, we normally rename the "My Computer"
Icon on the desktop to the corresponding machine name on the network (ie.
023Test01). When we do the setups, we get one profile exactly how we want
it and then copy that profile to all other users as well as the "Default
User" profile. As new users login to the system, the profiles are setup
with the appropriate name automatically which we can then refer to for
troubleshooting purposes (remote admin) quickly.

We recently renamed an XP machine on our network from 023Test01 to
023Test02. Unfortunately, there are many users (with existing profiles)
already on the machine. Is there a way to rename the "My Computer" Icon on
the desktop for each of the existing profiles WITHOUT having to login as
each user?

I thought there might be a registry entry or ini type setting but I can't
find it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks!
Dean



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