John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...

Posting this for a friend of mine:<BR><BR>"In windows is there a command line tool to rename a computer, not in a domain using netdom, just the local computer name? It would be really nice if it ...

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.

Needless to say, these automatically generated device names aren't exactly inviting, and they're not particularly informative for that matter, either. By contrast, my Google Pixel 9 Pro received a ...