How to solve the problem of WinXP computer boot prompts on the network

Some time ago, in order to increase the number of people in the office, the company bought a new batch of computers. Just after installing the network, it can also be used normally. At that time, no problems were found, that is, the bottom right corner of the computer after booting into the system desktop. The pop-up window reports a system error, and there is a line below the word "There is a duplicate name on the network"; the Internet is also intermittent, what is going on? Here's how to solve the WinXP computer boot prompts on the network has a duplicate name.

To solve the problem of having a duplicate prompt on the network is to modify the computer name. Steps:

Right click on the desktop  My Computer", select “Properties”, In the pop-up window, look for the "computer name" label, click on the computer name page and click “change", then enter your own name, or the current detailed time as the computer name, click OK, and then restart the computer. .

Remarks:

1. Some computers can't click when they change ” the changes are gray. This is due to the lack of current system login permissions. You can switch between them. The account with administrative rights can be operated, or the administrator can help to modify it;

2. When choosing the computer name, some friends are not willing to expose themselves on the network, and can use the combination of surname and current time. Such as chen20101008, although the computer name has a limit, but may wish to use;

Example 2:

Users connected to the campus network sometimes pop up a prompt on the screen "There is a heavy on the network Name & rdquo;, then your machine may not be able to connect properly. The reason for this is that the names of the machines in a LAN must be different, but many users do not change the default name when installing the operating system, such as “Microsoft", which causes host name conflicts.

To change the name of the host computer, click: "My Computer"-“Properties”-“Computer Name”-“Change”, then in “Computer Name ” Fill in your favorite hostname in the column and try to avoid conflicts with others.

Why does the computer name have a duplicate name on the network

There are many unnamed installation modes on the network, and more are the unattended installation mode of the pirate system. Caused by.

There are currently not many systems that use genuine systems. Even many companies and public agencies have bought genuine systems, but because of the cumbersome installation and the time-consuming update of patches, most of them use a prototype, update patches, install common software, use ghost backup, and then other models of the same type. Use ghost to restore on your computer.

Some simply use pirated systems. Some pirated systems have adopted the current installation time as the computer name to avoid the problem of “renamed” on the network.

Finally, add: There is no contradiction between the name on the Internet and the Internet. Renamed on the network will only cause problems when using My Network Places, such as network shared folders, shared printers, etc., but it does not affect the Internet, but why is there sometimes an Internet disconnection? If there are too many computers with the same name in the same network segment, there will be too many network broadcast packets to congest the network, so that the computers on the entire network segment feel that the Internet access speed is slow.

The above is to solve the WinXP computer boot prompts on the network has a duplicate name method, if you encounter this problem users, whether you are personally used network or collective use can follow the above steps to operate, Can help you solve the problem one by one.