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Difficulty renaming Win 10 pc within wired network
I have one Win 10 workgroup PC suddenly not being recognised by the others - while being able to recognise them. The problem is that the desired network name (Network X, where X is my family.name) has disappeared. Unhelpfully the name is now Network 3 and has become Public rather than Private. I vividly recall that I fixed this not long ago.
I cannot use the security method, presumably because I don't have a Windows account, and have found that the Registry method falls down at the last hurdle. There is no Profiles at the end of the line which would allow me to insert the name.
I am referring to the string
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles
I must have overcome this in the past as the correct name was previously operating.
Can anyone help me to restore the correct name and status?