Win9x question...

[Ben Jackson]

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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