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.