When opening Remote Desktop to different Windows servers, it is easy to confuse two remote desktops.
How do I get each remote server to automatically display some system information as desktop wallpaper, ie. Computer Name, Operating System, IP Address, etc.
I've used BGInfo from the SysInternals guys to do this in the past.
There are a number of offerings for desktop widgets. Why not try the following for starters:
Nothing nearly as sophisticated, but I change the desktop colour to a fairly strong primary that is easily distinguishable. Now people say "it's on the red one", so it works as a way of simply and easily telling machines apart.
Unless I'm missing something, the easiest way to do it would be to create a desktop image for each machine listing the Computer Name, Operating System, IP Address, etc.
Assuming that you're using Windows, a more complex but cooler way to do it would be to use Rainmaker and Enigma to dynamically generate the information and embed it into the desktop. Installing and using both Rainmaker and Enigma just to get the hostname might be overkill, but you can also have it display the output from various processes so you can monitor whatever system metrics you require: free/used memory, CPU use, network traffic, what have you.