1. Using System Properties. From the start menu, right-click Computer and choose Properties. The current computer name is displayed in the Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings section The name that you see in the Network and Sharing Center is the name that Windows gives your network adapter, to distinguish it from other network adapters you may have. If the name Windows uses bothers you, it can easily be changed: right-click > Rename. Editing the Windows registry for a cosmetic reason makes no sense - that's one of the ways We can rename a windows computer from command line using WMIC computersystem command. Please see the command below. WMIC computersystem where caption='currentname' rename newname. Example: If the current computer name is XP-PC, to change it to Windows7-PC, we can run the below command. wmic computersystem where caption='xp-pc' rename windows7-pc. An explanation of UNC path names in Windows. The Universal Naming Convention is the naming system used in Microsoft Windows for accessing shared network folders and printers on a local area network . Support for working with UNC paths in Unix and other operating systems use cross-platform file sharing technologies like Samba . 1. When I open the Windows Explorer, and click on Network, I get a list of devices, printers, multimedia devices and under Computer I see the name of this computer. When I change the computer name via System settings, I see a different name, and changing that name doesn't change the given name in the devices list. 1 Open a command prompt. 2 Copy and paste the netsh wlan show profiles command into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below) This command will give you a list of all wireless network profiles on each interface on your PC. 3 Do step 4 (on all interfaces) or step 5 (on specific interface) below for how you would like to delete How to Rename or Change Network Name in Windows 10 By Bashkarla / How To Every connection in Windows 10 has its own network name. Generally, Windows 10 assigns generic names like Network 1, Network 2, etc., to all your network connections. If you have a router, then Windows might use the name you assigned in the router. No, changing the name of a Windows machine is harmless. Nothing within Windows itself is going to care about the computer's name. The only case where it may matter is in custom scripting (or alike) that checks the computer's name to make decision about what to do. R26bFs.