display username and workstation name on desktop (WXP-Pro)

[aabraham]

Hi

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to display current logged on user and workstation name on the desktop. I know I can change the My Computer name to this via "Show User and Computer Name on Desktop" tip but this didn't work.

My preference is to have the info as part of the desktop similar to "Show Windows version on desktop" tip via PaintDesktopVersion key

Can this be done??

Thanks
Anthony

[OneUpOnU]

Here's how I did it...

run regedt32
navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Change "LocalizedString" to a REG_EXPAND_SZ with a value of "%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%"

That should do the trick for every user that logs onto the workstation.