Win9x question...

Warren E. Agin wea at swiggartagin.com
Wed Jun 26 13:46:51 EDT 2002


I can confirm the first one. The second is likely dependent on the networking configuration - my registry does not contain that setting option.

-Warren Agin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ben Jackson 
  To: kgleason at ma.ultranet.com 
  Cc: discuss at blu.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:48 AM
  Subject: Re: Win9x question...


  Well, in the wonderful world of Win32, most config data isn't kept in
  files, its kept in the horrid mess that is the Registry. They key in Win95
  is:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\ComputerName\ComputerName:
  "ComputerName"

  Along with the network portion of the same data:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP:
  "ComputerName"

  I can't verify this now as we no longer have 9x machines at work, but I
  shuffled through one of my stacks of paper and found this.

  HTH
  ~Ben

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  On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, kgleason at ma.ultranet.com wrote:

  > Does anyone know of a file location in Windows 9x where the Computer Name is consistently stored? I am trying to access this information directly from a QBasic program. I tried doing a search for text and came up with the USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT files in the \WIndows directory. 
  > It would be nice if there was one location where computer name was listed in a fixed location or where I knew the number of bytes following a variable. Can anyone help?
  > 
  > Thanks.
  > Kevin
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