Hot patching is coming to Windows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the most part, I think Windows works quite well. My daily ...

I need to take a running windows desktop box that's part of a domain, give it a new computer name, and then continue working on it (with the box having the new name), without having to reboot at all.

As in the title, this happened the other day when I touched my computer's side panel (Antec P183 case). Reading about this phenomena on the net has been almost comical, with individuals who claim to ...