Can the name you give your PC have embedded blanks within the name?


  1. JimLewandowski
    Posts : 450
    Windows 7
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    Can the name you give your PC have embedded blanks within the name?


    If anyone knows for sure.

    Or, get to a command prompt and issue:

    ECHO %computername%

    Thanks folks.
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  3. Ztruker
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    Windows 10 Pro X64
       New #2

    No blanks allowed.
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  4. JimLewandowski
    Posts : 450
    Windows 7
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       New #3

    IIRC, if you put blanks in, doesn't Windows then change that to a hyphen??

    GOOD news as I'm tired of this massive .bat script and thought I'd have to update it to take into account embedded spaces in a directory node.
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  6. wanchoo
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    Windows 7 Pro with SP1 32bit
       New #4

    The answer as had been said earlier is "No". But why don't you try it out and see it for yourself?
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