Change Windows 7 Computer Name?

[jp10558]

I used to use a Run command to start NewSid, but that's no longer supported in Win7... How would you do this now?

[joehittn]

hi,

newsid is no longer existing.

you might want to read about this here.

my conclusion was that it is not necessary for the most part of it, but for the wsus-stuff, so i searched for a way to still change it, just to go for sure.

you can change the sid in two different ways:

1) windows sysprep

2) use sidchg.exe from www.stratesave.com

explained in english here

explained in german here

i made a little gui where you can enter the new computername you want to choose while changing the sid.

prerequisites:

download sidchg64.exe from stratesave.com

there has to be a copy of sidchg64.exe in your windows directory

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#include <GUIConstants.au3>  ;this is required for a GUI to work
;This creates the inital GUI box
GUICreate ("RaumUmwelt Administrations GUI",370,140)
GUISetFont(10,600)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("SID-Changer für Windows 7 64bit",10,5)
GUISetFont(8,400)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Achtung: sidchg64.exe muss bereits in windowssystem32 vorhanden sein!",10,30)
$But_Start = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start!", 60, 100, 100, 20)
$But_Exit = GUICtrlCreateButton("Exit", 260, 100, 100, 20) ;This causes the application to exit
GUISetFont(7,400)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Eingabe des neuen Computernamens", 10, 80, 230, 17)
GUISetFont(8,400)
$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("rXX", 10, 99, 32, 21)

GUISetState()
While 1
$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
Switch $nMsg
Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
  Exit
Case $But_EXIT
  Exit
Case $But_Start
   $input_Comp = GUICtrlRead ($input1, 1)
   _sidchg64 ()
EndSwitch
WEnd

Func  _sidchg64 ()
    sleep (1000)
send ("#r", 0)
sleep (500)
send ("cmd", 0)
sleep (1000)
send ("{enter}")
sleep (1000)
send (@WindowsDir&"System32sidchg64 /COMPNAME:"&$input_Comp& " /F /R")
    sleep (500)
send ("{enter}")
EndFunc

Edited May 8, 2012 by joehittn