I would like to rename the My Computer icon for all computers that I have here. At my last job, we had the computer name with the My Computer icon. But that was on the image so we never had to set that. Users give me a blank look when I ask for that here at my new job or they tell me its a 'Gateway' or 'HP'. Anyways, I would like to add the computer name onto the My Computer icon. I know its somewhere in the registry. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the quick reply. It doesn't like the Type. It gives an error saying "A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Type'." I don't do much scripting in the registry, so I'm not sure what this means.
Thanks.

It seems that I can't connect to HKCR through Powershell. I deleted the -Type "ExpandString" and now it says "Cannot find drive. A drive with name 'HKCR' does not exist." I can connect to HKLM but not HKCR. Not sure if its a permissions issue but I have full control of HKCR in the registry. ???

You have to add HKCR as a psdrive it's not loaded by default.

New-PSDrive -name HKCR -PSProvider Registry -root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

~Glenn

Thanks, that's all I needed. Worked great once I added it as a drive.

Not to take the focus off Powershell but...

Wouldn't it be a better support structure to leverage something like BGINFO to display pertinent information for desktop builds (ie. - workstation name, ip address, username, build info, etc).  You can easily customize a .bgi file and deploy that along with bfinfo to the desktops then add it to the RUN key (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WIndows\CurrentVersion\Run) to launch on startup so its always there atop the wallpaper and makes it very easy for desktop techs to see at first glance, much less simple for end users to read via phone call if need be.

It worked great as far as putting the computer name on My Computer but ever since I've done that I rebooted and my computer is freakishly slow. It seems like it goes in spurts. It will suddenly stop and then about 15 seconds later it will just do everything that I right-clicked or minimized or whatever. Any idea why its so slow just because I changed that value? Another thing is that the start menu and task bar will disappear for a period of time. I like the idea of bginfo. I've seen it on servers and I would consider doing something like that. I'm not too familiar with bginfo file, how do I configure it?

sorry Hal, I just didn't see the point in trying to force something that already had a more elegant solution.  Just because we have an amazing tool at our disposal with Powershell, doesn't mean that its the answer to everything, right?

Just a reminder to us all that sometimes the right answer can be seen if we take a step back and look at the problem from further away instead of jumping right into a whole development project.  :)