I know how to do this in Windows XP, as explained in this answer, but it seems that LocalizedString in HKLM\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} is locked in Windows 7. Every time I try to edit it, I get the following error, Cannot edit LocalizedString: Error writing the value's new contents
Does anyone know how I can edit this to show the computer name on the desktop’s "Computer" icon?
That key is protected. To write to it, you need to give yourself write permission to it.
@Synetech, thanks a lot for pointing me to the not so obvious, I probably would have never seen it had not been for your help (upvoted your answer), and yes I was already running as admin, I have UAC set to elevate without prompt for admins (also tried running "as administrator", running from cmd prompt started as admin, etc, etc, but nothing worked) but didn't work
Fix: Turns out, that key is stupidly configured (imho), neither System, nor Administrators had write access to that key, I had to take ownership of the key then give administrators write access to be able to modify it.
Open regedit with the Sysinternals command line utility PsExec with -i -d -s switches:
Example: "C:\Program Files\Sysinternals Suite\PsExec.exe" -i -d -s C:\Windows\regedit.exe
(This works even with the «Legacy» registry entries for example...)
PsExec: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553
Hope this help. Let us know.
