How to Change the Workgroup Name in Vista

Submit Your Tip

How to Change the Workgroup Name in Vista – This is a place for the community to provide tips and advice on How to Change the Workgroup Name in Vista. This topic was created by Richard Frechette and the tips are provided by the community. The tips you add here can be your own or referred from another site. The best tips are then ranked at the top when up-voted by members of the community.

Tip 1 - Join or create a workgroup - Windows Help

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Richard Dase | permalink

Learn how to join your computer to a workgroup on a network.

For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/join-create-workgroup ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to Change a Workgroup Name in Vista

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by charlotte guyon | permalink

A Workgroup enables computers on a small network, such as one used in a home or a local area network (LAN), to share files and resources. Each computer on the workgroup is a peer, an equal, to the ...

For further reading: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/change-workgroup-name-vista-707.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - Setting Computer Name and Workgroup in Windows Vista

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Barbara Du Puy | permalink

Setting computer name and workgroup on Windows Vista is useful to identify specific computer in home network, especially when you try to locate shared folder/file.
Tags: setting computer name,workgroup,vista

For further reading: http://www.home-network-help.com/setting-computer-name.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - Change Your Computer Name in Windows 7, 8, or 10

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Kenneth Hutt - Suu 00f 1ol | permalink

Changing this in XP was extremely simple, but in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, or Vista it’s buried behind a few more menus. Here are three routes you can take to open up System Properties:

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-computer-name-in-windows-vista/ ^[4]