How To Get Rid Of The Activate Windows Watermark

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Looking to get rid of the "Activate Windows – Go to settings to activate windows" watermark on Windows 10 your desktop? Here you are in the right place, the Activate Windows watermark indicates your windows license has expired. If you have valid Windows 10 product key (purchased from Microsoft store or somewhere else) you can enter to Activate Windows 10 and remove the activate Windows watermark. But if you don't have a genuine Windows key here simple registry tweak help to hide or remove activate windows watermark permanently on Windows 10.

Remove activate windows watermark registry tweak

Here simple registry tweak to remove activate windows 10 watermark, without a genuine product key.

PressWindows + R keyboard shortcut to bring up theRun dialog box
Type regedit in the Run box and press Enter to open Windows Registry Editor
First backup registry database then go to the following key

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Here on the right panel, Look forPaintDesktopVersion Dword key
Double click on the value "PaintDesktopVersion" And Change the value "1" to a "0"
Click "OK to save changes." Close registry editor and restart your computer.
Now check if there is no more activate windows 10 watermark on your desktop.

Registry Tweak to remove Activate windows watermark

Remove the watermark by killing the process

If the registry tweak not work for you, Still you are getting "activate windows watermark" Here a simple notepad trick that helps to kill and remove Activate Windows 10 Watermark from your desktop.

Open notepad on your PC, You can do this by click on the start menu search type notepad and hit the enter key. Type these following commands:

@echo off
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
explorer.exe
exit

notepad tweak to remove active windows water mark

Now on notepad go to file and click "Save as".
Here select the location where you want to save the file.
Then Change the save as type to All Files (*.*) and Give the file name as " remove.bat"

save the file with .bat extetion

Now open the file location where you saved.
You will see a file as shown below image.
Right-click on the remove.bat file and click on "Run as administrator"

run remove.bat file

A command prompt will be opened and closed itself,
Now restart your laptop or desktop.
That's all there is no more Activate windows watermark on your Desktop.

Remove activate windows watermark permanently

Here another Easiest and permanent solution

Right-click on desktop > display settings
Go to Notifications & actions
There you should turn off two options "Show me windows welcome experience…" and "Get tips, tricks, and suggestions…"
Restart your system, And check there is no more activate Windows watermark.

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