When a PC support team uses remote tools such as Configuration Manager Remote Control to assist end-users with issues, often their first question is "what is your computer name?". Many companies utilize solutions such as BGInfo to stamp this into the background, however, that can easily get weird with screen scaling, etc. in play. Today I am offering a completely free alternative, a small lightweight and easy to deploy application called "Computer Info". This application opens up and displays a few important pieces of information such as the operating system, amount of RAM, and finally the computer name directly to the end user. With Computer Info in your environment, end users won't have to minimize 20 windows or be walked through opening up a system information view to read their computer name off to the person helping them. Instead, the person assisting simply needs to say "click the circle with the blue 'i' in it", which you can pin to the task bar of your Windows 10 image using your layoutmodification.xml during operating system deployment.

To get started testing out/using Computer Info:

1. Download the attached "Computer Info Install.zip" file attached to this post, and extract its contents:

2. In the resulting directory, you will find images you can use to publish your app to Software Center if using Configuration Manager (SCCM) in your environment, as well as the installer files for Computer Info, including a sample company logo image file as well as an installation script (powershell). You can replace the included logo file with your own PNG file (transparency supported), or simply delete it to cause Computer Info to not display a logo at all:

3. Package up the source files from the installation directory in Configuration Manager and deploy it your systems!

Bonus Note 1: The Company name displayed in Computer Info is pulled from the RegisteredOrganization Registry key in the registry (Wow6432Node on 64-Bit systems):

Bonus Note 2: If you need a way to manage Windows 10 feature updates on workstations in a 24/7 environment (such as a hospital), you may want to think about dividing your computers up into "Update Groups" designated by color, and making sure as systems are placed, they are assigned a different color group than their neighbors. These color groups can be used to communicate scheduled updates to your end users, who would have a nice visual into which Update Group their computer was in by opening Computer Info on a system with the UpdateGroup registry key set to a .net compliant color: