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How To Change Workgroup Name in Windows 11 & 10

Want to change the default Workgroup name? Here’s how you can do it using the System Properties tool in Windows 11 and Windows 10.

By default, the workgroup name in all Windows systems is just “WORKGROUP”. While the default name is pretty useful to create, configure, and join workgroups, it can also cause a lot of confusion and difficulty when managing multiple computers. For example, it makes identifying computers on a network harder, causes NetBIOS name resolution conflicts, and increases security risk.

Whether you want to customize your system with a custom workgroup name or fix the issues caused by the default workgroup name, you can easily change it using the System Properties tool.

In this quick and simple tutorial, I will show you the steps to change the workgroup name in both Windows 11 and Windows 10. Let’s get started.

Before You Start

  • Administrator rights are required to change the workgroup name.
  • The steps below have been tested to work on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Good to know: How to change the computer name in Windows 11 (on Windows 10)

Steps to Change Workgroup Name Using System Properties in Windows 11 & Windows 10

  1. Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu.
  2. Search for “View advanced system settings” and click “Open“.
  3. Go to the “Computer Name” tab.
  4. Click the “Change” button.
  5. Type the name of your choice in the “Workgroup” field.
  6. Click “OK“.
  7. Click “OK” again in the “System Properties” window.
  8. Close all windows.
  9. Restart your system.
  10. With that, you’ve changed the workgroup name in Windows 11 & 10.

Detailed Steps (With Screenshots)

First, we must open the System Properties window. To do that, open the Start menu by pressing the Windows key on the keyboard. Next, search for “View advanced system settings” and click the “Open” option.

Once it opens, go to the “Computer Name” tab at the top and click the “Change” button at the bottom.

Click change button to modify workgroup name

In the “Computer Name/Domain Changes” window, type the new workgroup name of your choice in the “Workgroup” field, and click the “OK” button.

Type new workgroup name

As soon as you do that, you will see a new dialog box with the changed workgroup name. Click “OK” to continue.

Workgroup name changed

Click “OK” in the information dialog box.

Restart warning

Finally, click the “Restart Now” button to restart your computer. Restarting the system is necessary to make the changes take effect. If you don’t want to restart right away, click the “Restart Later” button.

click restart now to restart windows

Change Workgroup Name Using Command Prompt in Windows 11 & Windows 10

As an alternative, you can also modify the workgroup name using the Command Prompt. Here’s how.

  1. Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu.
  2. Search for “Command Prompt” and select the “Run as administrator” option.
  3. Run the following command while replacing “NewWorkgroupName” with the name you want to set.wmic computersystem where name=”%computername%” call joindomainorworkgroup name=”NewWorkgroupName”
  4. Next, close the Command Prompt window.
  5. Restart your computer.
Command to change workgroup name

That’s with the single-line command above, you’ve successfully changed the workgroup name.

If you have any questions or need help, comment below. I’ll be happy to assist.

1 thought on “How To Change Workgroup Name in Windows 11 & 10”

  1. Avatar for Shashi

    Hi
    After changing the workgroup name, I’m not able to see the other computer. I have changed all(2) the computer workgroup. Still not able to see the other computer. Where as I’m able to ping the IP Address of other computer.

    So I reset the work group as WORKGROUP. still I’m not able to see the other computer. And I have resterde both the computer after chinging the workgroup name.

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