Fantastic technologies like RDP and LogMeIn mean that the I'm spending a lot of time logged into remote machines. Like many users, I like my Desktop to look a certain way, so I configure my user account on each of the remote machines to look similar, if not identical, to my local machine. The problem is that I can't always see at a glance what computer I'm working on.

Taskbar naming

...but now here's a fix. You can effectively write names onto the Taskbar by configuring a custom Toolbar. Right-click the task bar, select Toolbars -> New Toolbar. Windows prompts you to select a folder, intentionally one containing a set of shortcuts making up this toolbar.

Conveniently the folder name is displayed on the taskbar, even if the folder is infact empty. By creating an empty folder named according to the current machine name, I can display text on the taskbar.