This tutorial teaches you how to hack the windows registry to show Computer and Username on Desktop in Windows XP

This registry hack shows you how to display your username in place of “My Computer” on the Windows XP desktop.

First of all backup your registry so that you can restore it if something wrong happens.

See the tutorial for backing up registry and restoring registry.

Now to change the name do the following:

Click on start, select run

Then type regedit and press enter

On the left hand panel, Click on “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT”, Then go to “CLSID” then “{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}”.

Find the “LocalizedString” in the right hand panel, the right click on it and select “Rename”. Rename it to the name “LocalizedString.old”.

Now right click anywhere on the empty (Blank) area in the right hand panel and select “New”

and select “REG_EXPAND_SZ” or “EXPANDABLE STRING VALUE”. Name this new string / item

as “LocalizedString”.

Now you have to set the value. To set the value, double click on the new string made and set its value to:

“%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%”

(you dont have to type quotes here when writing values)

To display just the username use “%USERNAME%”

To display just the computer name use “%COMPUTERNAME%”

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